TheTallGuy
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The moment you apply taxation you open up markets for the organised criminals because there's a profit. Regulate the market & again there's an opening for the criminal element to undercut official channels, or to provide "an extra special high not available elsewhere".The simple answer is legalise and tax most drugs and stop fighting a war you can’t win. Education is more important.
It depends on how you benchmark "social harm" & what agenda you are looking to promote as to how alcohol compares to other drugs.I believe when they ranked substances in order of greatest social harm in the uk, alcohol ranked number 1 by a long way.
Simply comparing the UK with other societies that have a more liberalised approach is disingenuous because other societies have differing levels of cultural ingrained lawfulness.