"The fact that a black market can sell illicit substances to a small minority cannot possibly be the justification to make abuse of the substance a legitimate mainstream habit."
Always good when the reductio ad absurdum that university debaters would use to point out the silliness of the war on drugs is actually government policy.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3387lrz5g4o
Tom Morris
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