Bethlehem officials to consider smaller drug treatment hospital
Like the larger hospital, the smaller version would be a drug and alcohol treatment hospital. Atiyeh says they're different from the drug treatment centers he's also proposed in the neighborhood because the hospital would be for shorter, detoxification …
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'Love & Hip Hop's' Lil' Scrappy to check into drug rehab
Atlanta rapper and VH1 reality TV star Lil' Scrappy plans to check himself into a drug rehabilitation center on Wednesday. In an interview with V103 FM morning personality Ryan Cameron, the “Love & Hip-Hop: Atlanta” cast member also known as Darryl …
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Florida Drug Rehab Center Into Action Treatment Collaborates with Rise Up …
Into Action Treatment, is devoted to helping drug addicts and alcoholics recover from a hopeless state of body and mind, and they are now partnering with Rise Up Gallery who help people living with paralysis create a new life for themselves. Call Into …
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Teen defends Portage drug rehab centre
With the future of the Portage rehab centre in limbo, a teen speaks out. (Portage). A teen resident of the Portage drug rehabilitation centre on the West Island praises the treatment program that turned his life around, but he's worried about the …
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Heroin Dulls Hardships for Afghan Women
… the Sanga Amaj Women's Treatment Centre is the only one of its kind in Afghanistan: named after the 22-year-old journalist who was assassinated in 2007, the facility caters exclusively to Kabul's massive population of female drug addicts. Out of …
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Lindsay Lohan 'Still On Drugs At Betty Ford Rehab Centre'
Lindsay Lohan is reportedly not drug free during her rehab stint at the Betty Ford Centre in California, as the hard partying actress is allegedly still taking prescription drug Adderall, which she takes for behavioural issues according to a new report …
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Question by Anonymous Anonymous: Why is it illogical to argue that marijuana should be legal because alcohol is more harmful, yet legal?
Is it not reasonable to expect the legal substances to be safer than the illegal ones? Preventing potential harm to oneself/others is the basis for outlawing substances in the first place, right?

Please only answer my question, no ramblings on the topic in general.

Best answer:

Answer by tomusiaka
You should not assume that a substance is less harmful just because it’s legal. There are many legal drugs in pharmacy that are much more harmful to you than marijuana and some other drugs that are illegal. Also, glues and other chemicals that can make you high are legal but they are very harmful to your body.

People who want to make marijuana legal have other reasons, too. For example, there are couple countries where legalizing drugs made people use them less and safer, or that if someone wants to hurt himself, he will do it any other way using any other substance that is legal or just will buy an illegal drug from a drug dealer that potentially could be even more harmful because it is not regulated by the law.

People who don’t want to make marijuana legal believe that making it legal would make a lot of people use it and hurt themselves and others. Hurting others would include families (father got addicted and is not supporting his own family), other drivers (driving when “on high” can be life threatening), other poeple (accidental) and government’s budget (more accidents would mean more filled up hospitals and drug addicts usually can’t afford to pay their medical bills because they spend all their money on drugs).

There are other valid arguments on both sides though but the one you gave is actually not a valid one.

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Spice Addiction Treatment and Synthetic Marijuana Drug Rehab Announced by …
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Above It All Treatment Center Helps Drug Addicts who are Type I and Type II …
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Substance Abuse Treatment Center Goes Beyond Court-Mandated Classes
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New Found Life of Delray Beach Substance Abuse Treatment Center in Delray …
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Fewer funds force drug treatment centers to close
They've been helping drug addicts in Hawaii for nearly 20 years. But because of a cut in government funds, the Big Island Substance Abuse Council is closing most of its facilities, including its only on Oahu. The real story is more people are asking …
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Mental illness, substance abuse sap time, resources of Duncan PD
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Fewer funds force drug treatment centers to close
They've been helping drug addicts in Hawaii for nearly 20 years. But because of a cut in government funds, the Big Island Substance Abuse Council is closing most of its facilities, including its only on Oahu. The real story is more people are asking …
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Comptroller: State funds misused at Yorktown substance abuse center
State auditors found misuse of $ 223,000 in taxpayer funds at area substance abuse centers run by Phoenix House, including an administrative assistant at the Yorktown site accused of taking thousands of dollars and using it to buy alcohol, cigarettes …
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