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If marijuana or any other drug for that matter were 100% legal tomorrow nothing at all would change from the way it is now. The people who want to use it will

If marijuana or any other drug for that matter were 100% legal tomorrow nothing at all would change from the way it is now. The people who want to use it will still use just like they do now. The fact is that even being illegal most places it is incredibly easy to get.

philwelch 16y ago
For marijuana this may be true--marijuana is easily identifiable and it only takes a little bit of networking to "know a guy". For other drugs this is emphatically not true--LSD, for instance, has faced supply-side crackdowns to the point where it's very difficult to find on the street, and additionally, no easy way to distinguish supposed LSD from other hallucinogens.
- jpdbaugh 16y ago
  I agree that other drugs are definitely harder to obtain, however I still believe that the people who would try and use harder drugs would remain the same. I just don't think the demand is that high for hard drugs such as LSD, cocaine, heroine, etc would increase with additional supply. Its just not that common for people to want to to them. Therefore, if they were legal there just wouldn't be that much of a market for those drugs and again there wouldn't be any noticeable difference in the day to day to the non-user.
  - philwelch 16y ago
    LSD isn't a "hard drug" in the slightest. But more importantly, cocaine and heroin don't have constricted supply--you can get plenty of both. I don't think there's enough LSD to satisfy demand at the moment, especially not with authenticity concerns.
    - jpdbaugh 16y ago
      You are right I shouldn't have lumped LSD in with Cocaine and Heroine. I have heard before that LSD doesn't even have any real side affects. Is that true?
      - GFischer 16y ago
        I got interested in that, the most authoritative source I could find on the fly (the NIH) seems to say it might cause flashbacks, but "LSD is not considered an addictive drug since it does not produce compulsive drug-seeking behavior.": http://www.nida.nih.gov/infofacts/hallucinogens.html http://www.nida.nih.gov/infofacts/hallucinogens.html

philwelch 16y ago

For marijuana this may be true--marijuana is easily identifiable and it only takes a little bit of networking to "know a guy". For other drugs this is emphatically not true--LSD, for instance, has faced supply-side crackdowns to the point where it's very difficult to find on the street, and additionally, no easy way to distinguish supposed LSD from other hallucinogens.

jpdbaugh 16y ago
I agree that other drugs are definitely harder to obtain, however I still believe that the people who would try and use harder drugs would remain the same. I just don't think the demand is that high for hard drugs such as LSD, cocaine, heroine, etc would increase with additional supply. Its just not that common for people to want to to them. Therefore, if they were legal there just wouldn't be that much of a market for those drugs and again there wouldn't be any noticeable difference in the day to day to the non-user.
- philwelch 16y ago
  LSD isn't a "hard drug" in the slightest. But more importantly, cocaine and heroin don't have constricted supply--you can get plenty of both. I don't think there's enough LSD to satisfy demand at the moment, especially not with authenticity concerns.
  - jpdbaugh 16y ago
    You are right I shouldn't have lumped LSD in with Cocaine and Heroine. I have heard before that LSD doesn't even have any real side affects. Is that true?
    - GFischer 16y ago
      I got interested in that, the most authoritative source I could find on the fly (the NIH) seems to say it might cause flashbacks, but "LSD is not considered an addictive drug since it does not produce compulsive drug-seeking behavior.": http://www.nida.nih.gov/infofacts/hallucinogens.html http://www.nida.nih.gov/infofacts/hallucinogens.html