Drug Policy: Illegality and Health

From a Washington Post article from October 21st (their online links only go back two weeks), William Raspberry writes:

“We invoke the public health as the reason we make certain substances illegal, but then we allow our policy to be driven by the illegality rather than by health considerations. If the illegality is the main consideration, then maybe it makes sense that Strawberry is behind bars. And if health is?”

Hmm, I hadn’t thought about it that way before.

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