Shoutbox

Being allowed to do whatever you want with your body is a nice principle and all, but at the same time we can't forget that generally people are stupid. What's legal is what's more likely to be considered right. And even if taking drugs was legal only to adults starting from a certain age, making drugs legal makes them much more available than they are now and inevitably, underage people who largely don't know what they're doing would experiment with them more than they do now. Sure, it's their own fault if they don't know what they're messing with and better for the gene pool, but at the same time I think that people should be protected with laws (and together with education) especially when they don't realize a threat to their health themselves. And no, education alone won't be of much use if the substance is readily available, as we can see with alcohol and tobacco. (Jesus, nowadays most people actually seem to think that social situations require you to be under the influence of something.)

And drugs and suicide are still related - many people die of (accidental or not accidental) drug overdose.