Let's talk about drugs

[abaris]

Now, all that being said, I believe that hard drugs shouldn't be legalized; just because some horrible substances are legal doesn't mean we should make more of them legal. I think we should only decriminalize them; I wouldn't really want to see stores selling meth.

You know, not everyone would suddenly inject themselves with unknown substances if they were legal. Cocain was legal not so long ago. In fact, CocaCola when it first hit the market was laced with cocain.

In my opinion, the positives outweigh the negatives. If drugs were controlled the dangerous stuff wouldn't be on the market or at least much less of it. You can take clean and good heroin for all of your life and live on as normal. Keith Richards is living proof ot that, going by his own admission that he always bought the best stuff available. Doctors say the same. Unless you overdose, but that can happen with what is legal already.

International racketeering would go down. Same as with the end of the prohibition. And so would procurement criminality.

All in all I mainly see positive aspects. Not everyone would suddenly run around stoned. Only the ones that do anyway would be on the save side. From the law as well as bad batches.