For instance, governments collaborate with the illicit drug
trade when it fits their realpolitik purposes.
(c) Is substance abuse a personal or a social choice? Can
one limit the implications, repercussions and outcomes of
one's choices in general and of the choice to abuse drugs,
in particular? If the drug abuser in effect makes decisions
for others, too - does it justify the intervention of the
state? Is the state the agent of society, is it the only agent
of society and is it the right agent of society in the case of
drug abuse?
(d) What is the difference (in rigorous philosophical
principle) between legal and illegal substances? Is it
something in the nature of the substances? In the usage
and what follows? In the structure of society? Is it a moral
fashion?