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    This 6 page paper discusses John Stuart Mill's claim that government should not legislate morality and contrasts that idea to the proposal of legalizing drugs. Arguments are given for the legalizing of drugs, supported with examples. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

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    his treatise, "On Liberty" are still used and studied world wide. Underlying his philosophies was this undercurrent that the individual should be responsible for his own moral and ethical growth,  rather than leaving that to the regulation of the state, that in fact the regulation by the state of such matters constituted despotism. In view of his philosophies, then, why  is it that the United States has such issues in regard to the legalizing of drugs? The question that seems to arise time and again around the drug controversy, is  whether or not a person should be free to make up their own mind whether they take drugs or not, or should the community do its best to protect people  from the danger of drugs? Mills would seem to believe that it is not the communitys responsibility to save mankind from himself. He would have agreed to the legalization of  drugs based on the idea, one might argue, that if one does not make legal drugs, which may effect the body adversely and addictively, then conversely there are a great  deal many things that would also have to be outlawed, such as alcohol, prostitution, euthanasia, and over eating, to name a few destructive and addictive substances. One of the  prevailing arguments these days is that one would not want a physician operating on one when the physician is using marijuana on his off hours. First of all, the recreational  use of marijuana does not seem to be any more addictive or physically debilitating as drinking several glasses of bourbon of an evening. Neither are good for a body, yet  one is legal and the other is not. One has to ask oneself whether one wants a physician operating when theyve been drinking the night before, too. Yet, it can 

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