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I tend to agree, but I don't think a society should treat all drugs the same. Opiates and crack cocaine are much more dangerous, than say pot or MDMA. If we le
by CoryG89 10y ago
I tend to agree, but I don't think a society should treat all drugs the same. Opiates and crack cocaine are much more dangerous, than say pot or MDMA.
If we legalize everything, we need much better drug education in schools. Let's get rid of "Just Say No" and instead actually teach kids to make informed decisions about what they will and will not put in their bodies.
- jug5 10y agoA meaningful education is not something that is widely available in America.
- theptip 10y agoYes, exactly. And in addition to better education, better counseling and support for addicts (including alcoholics) who have fallen into negative patterns of usage. We could afford a lot of that if we stopped incarcerating people for possession offenses.
- ep103 10y agoThere are specific drugs out there, that permanently disable your ability to cognitively function in a reasonable manner. Heroin permanently alters the way your brain measures its dopamine levels. PCP causes all sorts of serious mental harm, same with crack cocaine. These should be regulated the same way we would regulate any other chemical that hard those sorts of toxic affects. But people wouldn't do those drugs, if there were alternatives available that created similar feelings, that were legal. And that's the crux of it. Many drugs have little to no negative affects (compared to nicotine / alcohol), and could be used without horrid ramifications if they were legal and their purity levels were regulated. No one would do crack cocaine, if a legal safer variant of cocaine was available, for example.
- josu 10y ago>any other chemical that hard those sorts of toxic affects. Like bleach?