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Do you really think you have no ability to define the line where drugs are harmful?? It’s like I don’t know how to create good laws so therefore I should not b

• pjc50 3y ago
  This is a very real problem that people keep presenting actual evidence about drug harm, and it keeps getting ignored. The MMJ people argued correctly for decades that it was less harmful and addictive than prescription opiates and had valid uses for pain relief, and this made no difference to policy. (e.g. David Nutt on the British advisory council for misuse of drugs) I see you're also pretty much arguing for criminialization of alcohol, which very definitely and spectacularly failed. Although I will agree that it's probably the most harmful substance that still allowed to be regularly consumed. Paracetamol (acetaminophen) is the other substance that's been grandfathered in. Its surprisingly low lethal dose would not meet modern safety standards.
• yasman 3y ago
  Do you have any data you can reference to? Not every method to alter your mind is harmful. And hypothetically, if there was a way to improve mental health at the expense of physical health, what is the right call here? Is there one globally optimal call? Who better to make this decision than the individual? https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markeaston/2010/11/drugs_debate_hots_up.html https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markeaston/2010/11/...