My stance is that drugs should be available to those who seek them for it is a victimless crime, of course many will disagree with this argument. I feel it is a civil liberty for people to consume what they please. Now this is all in moderation and control, many drugs arent for some people, they could be sucked in and thats where recreation and use as tools to better yourself, turns to dependency and seeking constantly, doing things one wouldnt normally do to score their fix and not feel sick from withdrawal. The war on drugs has done nothing but create unneccesary violence just to feed money to higher ups (private prisons, drug testing labs, Federal Reserve) and to their own pockets (police, DEA, ATF). For these people who need help with the disease of addiction, more of our tax dollars should go to treatment for this epidemic. I whole heartedly believe the Silk Road was a great thing for the safety of recreational drug use creating no dangerous situations going to the street to buy your chosen substance and not even being able to trust what you bought and having to fear youll be robbed or killed. Even moreso the use of Bitcoins and anonynimity, it just puts us closer to weakening the power of the Federal Reserve and the constant dept that this system has put us into, and the NSA from knowing every action we take in our digital lives. In the end stop feeding corporations and banking cartels our livelihood by taking away our freedoms to use what we like and have their privacy, when we should focus on freedom, on harm reduction, and treatment for those who struggle.
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Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property.
Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another.
Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.
In vices, the very essence of crime — that is, the design to injure the person or property of another — is wanting.
It is a maxim of the law that there can be no crime without a criminal intent; that is, without the intent to invade the person or property of another. But no one ever practices a vice with any such criminal intent. He practices his vice for his own happiness solely, and not from any malice toward others.
Unless this clear distinction between vices and crimes be made and recognized by the laws, there can be on earth no such thing as individual right, liberty, or property — no such things as the right of one man to the control of his own person and property, and the corresponding and coequal rights of another man to the control of his own person and property.
For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify the very nature of things. It is as absurd as it would be to declare truth to be falsehood, or falsehood truth"
Vices are not Crimes: A Vindication of Moral Liberties
