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"Its also people who poison their kids making meth at home" This particular problem is immediately solved by legalizing recreational methamphetamine. Pharmace

"Its also people who poison their kids making meth at home" This particular problem is immediately solved by legalizing recreational methamphetamine. Pharmaceutical companies make methamphetamine too, and their production processes are well-regulated, produce drugs without hazardous adulterants, and do not put children in danger. I agree with you otherwise, that the social problems caused by recreational drug abuse will not just go away if drugs are legalized. Quite a few of those problems, however, are unique to black market drugs. People would not be throwing garbage bags full of chemical byproducts onto the side of a highway if they could just produce the drugs legally. Likewise with opiates: you would not see "Krokodil" or any of the other botched attempts to replace heroin if recreational opiates were legal and accessible. Likewise with the numerous "gray area" attempts to replace marijuana. These are artificial problems with an easy solution; the rest of the social problems associated with drug abuse can and should be addressed without prohibition.

mistercow 13y ago
>Pharmaceutical companies make methamphetamine too, and their production processes are well-regulated, produce drugs without hazardous adulterants, and do not put children in danger. Also, one of the reasons that making meth (and several other drugs) illegally is so dangerous and error prone is that all of the easy precursors are carefully regulated and tracked by the government. It's kind of like how outlawing abortion wouldn't actually stop people from getting abortions; it would just make them way more dangerous.
- lostlogin 13y ago
  The efforts big pharma makes to continue selling precursor drugs suggests big pharma actually love the current situation. They block laws which would help make cooking considerably harder. For all the war-on-drugs rhetoric, the laws are actually quite weak when it comes to blocking the availability of precursor compounds. Stopping the trade would lower profits. This is bad as far as the companies are concerned. http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2013/08/meth-pseudoephedrine-big-pharma-lobby?page=2 http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2013/08/meth-pseudoephedri...

mistercow 13y ago

>Pharmaceutical companies make methamphetamine too, and their production processes are well-regulated, produce drugs without hazardous adulterants, and do not put children in danger. Also, one of the reasons that making meth (and several other drugs) illegally is so dangerous and error prone is that all of the easy precursors are carefully regulated and tracked by the government. It's kind of like how outlawing abortion wouldn't actually stop people from getting abortions; it would just make them way more dangerous.

lostlogin 13y ago
The efforts big pharma makes to continue selling precursor drugs suggests big pharma actually love the current situation. They block laws which would help make cooking considerably harder. For all the war-on-drugs rhetoric, the laws are actually quite weak when it comes to blocking the availability of precursor compounds. Stopping the trade would lower profits. This is bad as far as the companies are concerned. http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2013/08/meth-pseudoephedrine-big-pharma-lobby?page=2 http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2013/08/meth-pseudoephedri...