[prutschman]

Who is more free:

1) An average man who is only not a drug addict because he lives in a country where drugs are regulated or shamed in a way to make them hard to obtain.

2) An average man who succumbs to addiction in such a country, and is now in a never-ending cycle in and out of prison and living on the street and at daily risk of death because there's no way to ensure that the drugs he takes aren't 100x as potent as he was expecting because it's easier for the cartels to sneak the product over the border that way?

[raxxorrax]

2 - Bad argument against freedom, especially in a context where a major

Drug abuse is mostly a form of escapism. So freedom isn't the problem, issues that drive people to consume drugs are. Although even many healthy people indulge in drug use. We had that argument with alcohol before...