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> I don't understand that argument. By the same reasoning all drugs should be legal. Do you really believe it's the illegal nature of drugs that keep the vast
by jumbopapa 7y ago
> I don't understand that argument. By the same reasoning all drugs should be legal.
Do you really believe it's the illegal nature of drugs that keep the vast majority of people from using them? It's the fact that they know it's bad. In the future social media could be no different.
I don't know if I would be in favor of legalization, but Portugal has had reasonable success with decriminalizing all drugs.
- wutbrodo 7y agoThis doesn't seem as unreasonable as your incredulity makes it sound. Alcohol is uncontroversially wayyy more dangerous than a handful of illegal drugs, and it's in incredibly wide usage. Same for cigarettes in the past: it took a sui generis effort to dramatically shift culture to lower cigarette's popularity (in the US), and it was fragile enough that a rebranding to "Juul" is starting to undo a lot of that work. FWIW, from a selfish perspective, I wish most drugs were legal: ; I used marijuana responsibly before it was legal and continue to use psychedelics responsibly, and the reason I don't do meth or cocaine isn't because it's difficult to get, but because I'm aware of how dangerous they are. But I'm genuinely curious as to what could make you think that, for the average person, legality doesn't drive a substantial amount of their attitudes towards usage of a given drug.
- supercanuck 7y agoYou are conflating legalization of drugs with he decriminalizing of drugs by people it is still illegal to manufacture and sell fetanyl to the public, just as the OP is suggesting regulating the addictive nature of social media/technology. No one is saying let’s criminalize using smart phones.