clownboy
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Tobacco has a bigger adverse affect on people than illegal drugs do, and nicotine in cigarettes is more addictive than heroin, but cigarettes remain legal.
Likewise, use of sugars in processed foods has a bigger adverse affect on people than illegal drugs do, as our society is becoming more obese and cases of diabetes rise which is a strain on the cost of health care. But use of sugar in processed foods is addictive but remains unregulated.
Caffeine is an addictive substance, but we do not regulate how much sodas children drink, even though sodas have other deleterious health affects when consumed in large amounts.
So if we're going to go after all addictive substances then let's go after all the addictive substances.
Otherwise, legalize them all, educate people on the effects of recreational drugs, and leave them alone to live their lives as they see fit.
That's just nonsense. Nothing you listed has near the harmful effects as crack or meth. Tobacco is indeed a harmful drug, but, like alcohol, for good or bad, it's written in to our society from the beginning. Not so with the schedule 1 drugs. And again, there's a large difference between the drugs you mention and schedule 1 drugs, both in their level and strength of addicition and the effects of abuse and addiction.
It's not an all or nothing thing, that's just the method that suits your argument. With the drugs you mention, they can be used in moderation with little to no health impact (in fact just the opposite). If you use crack or meth even moderate use is devastating to your health and addiction is inevitable.