Drugs Activity/"Justice" System

The government justifies making certain substances illegal by claiming that they are helping the public by eliminating something that can hurt them. The activity that we did in class showed that
some drugs that are illegal are much less harmful than some that are completely legal. If you take a look back to the history of illegal drugs, and at legal onces, such as nicotine, alcohol, and caffeine, you'll see that the legality of drugs is based on the government's economic and political interests.

A politician running for office and promising to "crack down on drugs" is going to automatically get votes from ignorant soccer moms. Politicians just say what the public wants to hear
; they are basically afraid to govern or campaign based off of personal opinion because of intense political competition and constant reelections.

Anyways, I think that all drugs should be legal. It's a person's own business what they put into their bodies. Public intoxication and ingestion of drugs should be illegal, though. I don't want to breathe anybody else's cigarette smoke and I wouldn't want my kids to see people doing lines a table over at restaurants. Not even so much to see them, but I wouldn't want intoxicated people
, off of anything, in the same place as my children.

But anyways, if the government's logic is that harmful things should be illegal, then alcohol and tobacco should be illegal as well. And why stop at drugs? When a little emo boy gets caught cutting his wrists, he should be tried as an adult and sent to prison. Am I right? He's harming himself and is therefor unfit for society. No, he gets counseling. Then why shouldn't a drug addict get counseling? Why should they be imprisoned and forced into potentially-dangerous withdrawal? But what if the drug user is content being a drug user? That's cool, too. Leave him alone, I say. If somebody isn't harming anyone, then it's nobody's business what they're doing.