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How about if you disagree with ALL forms of prohibition you support house thefts, teen suicide, the running over of pedestrians with the right away, the murder of one's mtoehr, etc. The logic implied is the same as the logic you implies. Highly delusional drugs can make one kill people or cause car accidents. Extreme hallucinagens should be illegal for that reason. Meth causes people to become thieves and in many cases to be violent. Alchohal restrictions exists so violent drunks and drunk drivers have no excuse.
For the sake of the majority and neccestial utilitarianism, I don't give a crap if it's someone's personal right to do moonflower if they end up killing someone because of it.
I say give the states the power to decide drug laws. Hopefully, most states will make pot legal and a few will keep the ban so the concerned mothers organization can got here and not complain.
But the dangerous drugs, ones that make people delusional and violent, those need to stay illegal. And don't say that that fuels drug dealers. It does only to a degree. Meth dealers, for example, are caught very frequently. This is a large deterant. Pot dealers on the other hand, can get away with it better.
The market for violent drugs is significantly smaller than the others anyway.
If one is in control of their mental state taking some acid or mushrooms or some other halllucinogenic drug will not adversly affect someone. I've certaintly never been violent nor met anyone violent when under the influence of any such drugs. On the other hand I have seen countless angry drunks.