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Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 08 November 2015 10:46:00AM *  0 points [-]

On the other hand some people pushing for drug legalization like to pretend that the costs don't exist.

FTFY.

But that's a pretty general phenomenon, by no means specific to the legalization of recreational drugs. Just because there exists some people who believe X for dumb reasons isn't terribly strong evidence against X, especially when counterbalanced by the fact that there also exist people who believe not-X for dumb reasons.