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For the sake of sanity let's remember that sugar is at least as addictive as cocaine and heroin. http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobsullum/2013/10/16/research-... It's probably even more addictive if 94% of lab rats prefer sugar over cocaine. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17668074

The majority of drug addicts are victims of abuse. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3051362 They need medical / mental health benefits. Drug addiction is clearly a medical issue. Let's treat it as such.

We didn't learn our lesson with Alcohol, so we repeated history with the war on drugs. Now we are failing to learn our lesson yet again.

Logic, reason, and education are not the driving factors for making drugs illegal. Fear, lack of education, politics, and deep misunderstanding are the true drivers of this insane ideology.