drugs

One of the biggest issues that government always says when it comes to drugs is how much they harm people. One of the main reasons drugs have kept illegal is that they cause damage to your body however, there are plenty of other things that cause harm but are not illegalised. For example cigarettes and alcohol are legal but they cause the same amount of harm as some drugs.

The argument of how harmful drugs or at least how harmful some drugs are doesn’t seem to work for me because for drugs like ecstasy people are only harmed by people cutting the drugs with other dangerous chemicals but if it was legal and was kept as pure ecstasy then it wouldn’t have been as harmful. David Nutt a former government drug advisor even said that taking ecstasy was no more harmful then riding horses. David Nutt was sacked for suggesting this so it seems that the government are not so focused on the health side of drugs or only are if it turns out that a drug is harmful.