DRUG LEGALIZATION PRIMER

(A Public Service Announcement from Suburra Publishing.)

Myth #3

Drug Addiction Is Hell

Physical drug addiction can be a traumatic experience and this section does not mean to belittle those that experience it. That being said, the reason that illegal drug addictions are particularly heinous is not from the drugs' effects, but from the fact that they are illegal.

People are forced into desperate and unhealthy lifestyles to finance their addiction. When heroin was criminalized in 1915 the cost per ounce shot from $6.50 an ounce to about $100 an ounce. Heroin addicts are forced to deal with criminals regularly and need money to support the artificially sky-high prices of heroin. It is estimated that the prices of marijuana, cocaine, and heroin are a hundred times more than they would be in a free market. Heroin and cocaine addicts are more likely to commit crimes than alcoholics because their substances cost exorbitantly more.

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All information taken from You Will Die: The Burden of Modern Taboos, Book I  by Robert R. Arthur. Detailed documentation of sources can be found therein.

Page last modified August 29, 2007.