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Другая легализация: сообщает Тим Ву.

Avoiding the highly charged politics of "illegal" drugs, the pharmaceutical industry, doctors, and citizens have quietly created the means for Americans to get at substitutes for almost all the drugs banned in the 20th century. [...] In a classic tax shelter, for instance, you do something perfectly legal (like investing in a business guaranteed to lose money) in order to reach a result that would otherwise be illegal (evading taxes). In the drug context, asking Congress to legalize cocaine or repeal the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 is a fool's errand. But it's far easier to invent a new drug, X, with similar effects to cocaine, and ask the FDA to approve it as a new antidepressant or anxiety treatment.

Для кокаина и героина -- безликих химических веществ -- это само по себе прекрасно. Но марихуану, грибы и кактусы так заменить нельзя. В удовольствие входит натуральность живого продукта.