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New Substance Abuse Helpline Provides Young Adults With Addiction and …
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Drug treatment centres give more abuse than therapy
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Alcohol & Drug Rehab London Canada Launches Program to Support …
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BC struggles with how to treat the most severe of mentally ill drug addicts
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Drug Rehab Wooster Helps Addicts With New Helpline
Teens, especially, that have developed addictions to drugs or alcohol are often uncertain about where they can go for help. Many are afraid to go to their parents or teachers for help for the fear of being judged. Drug Rehab Wooster saw that the teens …
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Drug Rehab Shaker Heights Offers Helpline for Teens
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New Helpline from Drug Rehab Sayreville Gives a Voice for Young Addicts
The new helpline established by Drug Rehab Sayreville provides assistance for teenagers and young adults, who struggle with drug and alcohol addiction, find a rehab facility best suited to treat their substance abuse. Many teenagers are uncomfortable …
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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.

What do you think? Answer below!

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Riverside Treatment Center Announces Adult, Adolescent Programs to Tackle …
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Fla. congressman checks into drug rehab center after pleading guilty to …
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