Anyone that wants legalized drugs, wants regulated and taxed drugs. A minority advocate anarchy, but most just want access to these drugs, if they personally deem them appropriate.
Drug advocates still want all nutritional info and negative effects plastered all over the boxes so that they can personally make educated decisions about their lives. For example, look at the Canadian cigarette boxes: http://www.smoke-free.ca/filtertips-5/images/Marlbo4.jpg (I don't know how people still smoke them... /mindblown)
Meanwhile people that do not like sugar, aren't trying to ban sugar (some minority of them may want sugar banned). The majority, just want consumers to be informed and make educated decisions. I'd like to personally add (and I think this opinion is shared): I would like it if we limit the abilities of marketers to hide the negative aspects of these substances. For example, a company shouldn't be allowed to advertise cereal to minors through colorful pictures and cartoons.
Can you imagine if cereal boxes needed 40% of their surface to be covered with pictures of diabetics with amputations/ulcers?
Or instead of a toy inside, you get an insulin monitor? How about pictures of cavities and decaying teeth?
I think in that world, very few children would want to eat that product, and even fewer parents would continue to buy them.
I haven't seen anyone suggest that sugar should be banned the way drugs are, just limited in how much can be contained in a product marketed as food. Similarly, I don't think that many people who support drug legalization would support allowing drugs to be added to products that are marketed as food rather than marketed as drugs.
For starters, I don't think there's any conceivable risk of boxes on supermarket shelves being stuffed to the brim with cocaine.
If you want to look at the number of cumulative life-years lost to drugs vs. sugar in the past several decades, my intuition is that it's not even remotely a close contest.
You don't think there is a risk that if drugs were totally legal, food produces wouldn't start adding addictive drugs? These companies are already trying to engineer the most addictive dorrito possible.
People love stuff like red bull and coffee because of their stimulant properties.
I bet there is a huge market for Frosted (with Coke) Flakes.
