Drug Policy

[Napoléon]

How do you know that?

It's a reasonable guess.

Are you a former drug user?

Don't see how that's really relevant.

Why is it safe?

Regulation.

Because it's regulated and there's a stamp saying "safe product"?

I think you're trying to misrepresent a bit here. Do they put labels of "safe product" on bottles of Grey Goose or packets of Marlboro?

Tobacco is regulated by the government, but it's full of dangerous chemicals.

It's a bit different to lining tabs with poisons intended to actually kill people because the people who made the tabs are sadistic psycho fucks you've met on the street corner. The additives included in cigarettes are added for a wide variety of reasons and I won't pretend to know them all, but it's a bit silly to compare tobacco (that has naturally occurring toxins within it anyway) to other drugs that are manufactured in an entirely different way and are entirely different substances in their own right, many of which have discernable levels of purity that can be regulated by the government.

People are used to do things their way, so if someone buys from a dealer and the price is good, there's no reason to go to the government's shop.

By your logic then there'd be absolutely no use in buying a car from a reputable dealer instead of a backstreet garage. Or getting an uncertified electrician to come round to your house instead of one who's got all his credentials. Or buying, as Pyrrho says, "bathtub gin" (whatever that is) when they can buy a regulated product...