Restricting the supply when you have a population of addicts just leads to what the GP talked about - turning to less pure, more dangerous alternatives on the s

Restricting the supply when you have a population of addicts just leads to what the GP talked about - turning to less pure, more dangerous alternatives on the street. I have no love of doctors handing out oxycodone like candy, but we're in serious danger of swinging the pendulum back the other way. I believe we should legalize these drugs, but require their usage to occur under medical supervision, given the risk of respiratory depression. This simultaneously solves the "dirty needle" problem and helps the "city streets full of drug addicts" problem. The only drug I support making illegal for recreational consumption is fentanyl (and others like it) - but frankly even that is probably unnecessary because the rise of fentanyl has happened _because_ of the war on drugs [1]. [1] I have no citation here. I'll note that as someone who has never tried fentanyl (besides being given it by a doctor as part of a cocktail to put me under as many people have experienced), it's said to not have much recreational value, so take that for what little it's worth. Rather, it is commonly added to other drugs like heroin and pressed alprazolam primarily because high potency drugs are easier to smuggle than low potency drugs. For example, a gram of LSD is trivial to smuggle and is equivalent to $10,000 hits of LSD, with an end retail value of $100,000 in many markets although naturally not priced that way when sold in bulk], whereas smuggling the equivalent value of weed would mean transporting on the order of 10,000 grams or more.