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We have arrived at the end. Having done so, I would be remiss not to reiterate a claim from Chapter 1: the moral, prudential, and legal statuses of recreational drug use are, in principle, distinct. Even if my moral defense of recreational drug use is sound, then, one may still deem recreational drug use to be imprudent, an activity that should be illegal, or both. Indeed, we are accustomed to doing just that with regard to other activities, such as riding a motorcycle while not wearing a helmet.
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For those interested in reading about the legal status of recreational drug use, a good place to start is Douglas Husak’s Drugs and Rights (New York,: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
John Stuart Mill, “On Liberty,” in Morality and Moral Controversies: Readings in Moral, Social, and Political Philosophy, 8th ed., edited by John Arthur and Steven Scalet (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2009), 387.
Caitlin Elizabeth Hughes and Alex Stevens, “What Can We Learn from the Portuguese Decriminalization of Illicit Drugs?”, The British Journal of Criminology Vol. 50, No. 6 (2010): 999.
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Lovering, R. (2015). Afterword. In: A Moral Defense of Recreational Drug Use. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137528681_7
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