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by epolanski 895 days ago
> Drugs and gambling do not hurt others.

They ruin families, neighborhoods, cities.

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If you ever need an example of how drugs genuinely ruin things on a large scale read absolutely anything about the opium wars.

I do contend that "ruining families" is not a thing we should base policy on because it implies both a crazy amount of government intrusion into individual lives and because it imposes rules on everyone to make the nuclear family work.