drug use, pornography, and alcoholism all necessarily conform to the economic context they exist in. if you don't understand that, shit, you're purposely missing my point.
Of course, but that's not the point: the point is what kind of an attitude should a society adopt towards such practices, and ultimately how could it regulate these.
Under capitalism, drug production is a business like any other, it employs wage labour and produces commodities, though the specificity of this particular production is that it is illegal (and doesn't have the cost of taxes on its back).
Under communism, drugs couldn't be prodced as commodities, but as useful products which fulfill a need. Some of them might not be produced at all if a society reaches a decision to ban such production - effectively to posit that this cannot be understood as a need worthy of being met. Furthermore, it would be more difficult to set up illegal production under communsim since the producers would be wholly dependant on barter as ways of obtaining use values (this presupposes the elimination of money in the form of labour vouchers - which would not circulate).
But the real question is what do we think about the reasons provided for one decision or the other over this issue. And this is not a matter of abstract individual choice, of course - since production in communism is directly social production, and an individual cannot choose to consume something which is not being produced, but then again we come back to the issue of why would producers decide not to produce certain items. This very well might be the case, though I woulnd't advocate any such ban - or in other words, unconditional legalization of light drugs, and possibly of "more serious" stuff.
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