#readwise # If Cannabis Is Legalized, Should All Drugs Be?  ## Metadata - Author: [[The Argument]] - Full Title: If Cannabis Is Legalized, Should All Drugs Be? - URL: https://www.airr.io/episode/616fe00d104cfa000fb098eb ## Highlights - My caution is when you allow a for-profit industry, a lot of the "education" is going to be provided by that industry. You referred earlier to, I may get the details wrong, but I think it might have been **a Purdue advertisement that said, 'when Tylenol is not enough take Oxy.'** I may not have the details right, but **that is them trying to educate you about the right, in their mind, set and setting for drug use, not for your benefit, but for their profit's benefit.** Legalizing supply is night and day different than just decriminalizing. **The power of the market that is unleashed when you create corporations that make money by inducing greater use of their product, coupled with intrinsically some of these products are appealing or addictive [make a] a potent combination we need to be very careful about.** ([Time 0:23:55](https://www.airr.io/quote/61742a2a3b174903fab92d58)) - Note: This is an excellent argument against legalization of drugs in the U. S. Read between the lines, **if he hadn't mentioned Oxy and Tylenol, would it be clear that he wasn't talking about Facebook**? - This could be seen as another **argument against the primacy of [[The First Amendment]] and the freedom of speech in the United States**, same as [[The Road to Damascus]]. - ![[Sapiens#^lu45ff]]