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Some day I hope someone without an axe to grind does an in-depth study estimating how badly people would be harmed with drug regulation v. without drug regulation. I've seen the 'yeah but regulation causes harms' versus 'yeah but non-regulation causes harms' argument before, but I can't remember seeing anyone try to rigorously and comprehensively quantify the respective pros and cons of both courses of action and compare them.
I hope someone without an axe to grind does this; if there are axes involved, its much more likely to turn out supporting whatever the person thought before, i. e. not strongly correlated with how people are hurt or helped by regulation