> It's not hard at all to find these drugs today "finding" them versus legally using them is a pretty large gap in semantics. There is a huge stigma in many so

> It's not hard at all to find these drugs today "finding" them versus legally using them is a pretty large gap in semantics. There is a huge stigma in many social circles against going to "the ghetto" and "cold copping" for dope. Even if you get yours from a suburban dealer, there are many social consequences to be paid (in some circles) such as divorce, losing friends, etc if they find out you're a "pill popper". There is also a clear danger both from being victimized in a crime and being prosecuted by Johnny Law. Personally I think that's what keeps most people from at least trying opiates. If you could just stop at CVS and pick up a bottle of oxymorphone for $14.99 like you buy advil, that removes (what I claim to be ) a huge barrier of entry to being an opiate addict. In my earlier post I mentioned driving/crashing, but I left out the most obvious one, dying. Opiates will straight-up kill you if you overindulge. In that regard, it's nowhere near alcohol in being a "hard drug". Yes you can die from acute alcohol poisoning, but I shouldn't have to explain to you why it's harder to chug a bottle of vodka than it is to consume 2-3 pills too many. What kind of society will we live in when it becomes routine that people start disappearing ? Regardless of whether you are ok with that, constituents will demand action , aka prohibition. Or else you must believe that our soceity is somehow capable of safely consuming oxymorphone, codeine, just like they currently do with advil or tylenol, etc without any increased OD-ing once it becomes legalized (please clarify). > The vast majority of people don't do heroin because it's bad for you, not because it's illegal. Then why do so many people smoke ? It says right on the label "these will kill you", yet I see people every day smoking ? I thought people didn't do things that were "bad for them" ?