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The social problems, mental health and physical health issues related to cocaine, legal or not, far outweigh the benefits of legalising it.

I'll add that my cousin was stabbed 6 times by a coke head flat mate who had a psychotic episode.

And I haven't started on the slavery side of the production side of the supply chain.

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> And I haven't started on the slavery side of the production side of the supply chain.

That exists primarily because of the legal status. If cocaine were legal, for example, the production wouldn't be much worse than say coffee cultivation.

And that's terrible what happened to your cousin, but I don't see how those relatively limited cases, as bad as they are, compare to the millions of lives that have been destroyed globally by the war on drugs.

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