Ignore the ramblings (maybe not, I think it actually makes sense)

[aeroledzeppelin]

Ok

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[tynag]

I am a little confused. It initially seems like you are making arguments for legalizing marijuana and mild psychoactive drugs, but when you get to the monetary arguments, you suddenly switch to heroin. Now, I might be naive, and your first section might contain an arguemtn for the legalization of heroin, but as it stands, the paper seems a little disingenuous. I can see a smoker, or an alcoholic, or a dope fiend operating well in society, but a crack fiend seems to be a slightly different story. And you seem to admit that when you don't try to make the argument, but when it comes to the economic arguments, you don't present arguments about marijuana, you present arguments about heroin. And my intuitive senses tell me that the economic/regulatory arguments would work less well for marijuana, and the negligible harm to society arguments are working less for heroin, so you just ignore those. I think that your paper misleads.