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Going meta here - I offer the hypothsesis that one of the important though unspoken functions of government is to continually develop criteria by which people can be marginalized and then implement them.

In other words, drug laws don't exist as a solution to a social harm; rather, they exist because even so-called enlightened nations continually perform triage against their populations and need to expand the lists of justifications for doing so.