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My superficial approach would be :
- status quo on drugs and alcohol : the West does NOT have cultural ties with drugs. I see absolutely no need to make them legal. Why change laws for 2 % of the population that uses drugs ?
On alcohol : the West DOES have cultural ties with alcohol (beer for Germany, Belgium and UK, whisky for the UK, wine for France, etc.) and I am against changing laws on them / taxing them. Yeah, in my mind, in doubt = status quo.
- legislate on / tax fastfood and industrial processed foods with sugar / bunch of salt / chemicals in them. This type of garbage food is a relatively new phenomenom in the West and one must be blind to not see that our nutrition is going to shit. So I don't give a shit, tax the fuck out of it and use this to subsidise vegetables and rice. I don't care about fat fucks who will cry freedom.
Whether or not there are cultural ties to drugs or not (I suppose that is debatable) my opinion on legalising drugs is more to do with the practical realities about how prohibition fails in every sense of the word.
Prohibition has clearly not worked for the decades we have tried it and there are now a growing example of countries who have decriminalised/legalised marijuana without the apocalyptic outcomes proclaimed by doomsayers.
Prohibition is expensive and a drain on otherwise good policing resources. These could be reallocated to something productive.
Prohibition makes it more dangerous to users as the substance has no safeguards, audit process or oversight. Even if you care little for the lives of the drug users this has an impact on the health system and you pay for it regardless.
Prohibition creates organised crime.
Prohibition fills the justice system and prisons with unsustainable volumes.
All of this is bad in my eyes. They would be much better off selectively legalising substances and making them safe to consume. The money earned by tax, and saved by policing, could be used for education and mental health (this being a key to the addiction in the first place) and come out way ahead.