Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.
Laws against things like drugs are inhumane, and create an inhumane society and inhumane law enforcement. I know what's causing violence in America - the damn drug laws.
Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.
A law is a law, and it has to be respected.
Drug abuse is a medical disease that requires medical professionals.
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
The smuggling and distribution of misbranded drugs and medical devices of uncertain foreign origin has the potential for serious harm to patients.
I think the most important idea is to remember that there have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal.
The law is immoral.
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