As for drugs, these are indeed victimless crimes. Laws around them basically amount to pre-crime, based on the heuristic that people who use drugs go on to commit crimes, and therefore, drugs are banned.
Statistically it's commonly accurate enough, but it's lazy enforcement I can't get behind. Especially since statistical targeting before a crime is committed is not in any way justified.
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"Laws around them basically amount to pre-crime, based on the heuristic that people who use drugs go on to commit crimes, and therefore, drugs are banned."
Isn't that precisely the argument against immigration? "immigrants commit crimes statistically"?