Drug legality is an area of legislation so ludicrous that governments should be utterly ashamed of themselves and citizens should point this out at every opportunity.
Governments should legalise based on population health but instead they legalise based on what is profitable. Cannabis is no more dangerous than tobacco (in this country it is nearly always smoked mixed with tobacco). There are people who shouldn't smoke cannabis because of known risk factors but, in general, criminalising it is just ridiculous. Although I don't partake, I was fully behind the government's decision to downgrade it as a class of drug, and dismayed when there was a sudden about-face.
Ecstacy is about the safest drug out there (both primarily and in terms of secondary effects) and yet we criminalise those who buy and sell it yet continue to turn a blind eye to alcohol and tobacco. I don't use any illegal drugs but I think there are some I would use if there was proper regulation and education about who should be avoiding them and who they are fine for.
I would decriminalise ecstacy, cannabis and ketamine and consider the position on speed, LSD, coke, phet-water, and things like meow meow (which is a name coined by people who know nothing about it - no-one actually calls it that).
Despite having a friend who uses heroin recreationally, I think crack and heroin are too dangerous for too many people for them to be legalised. In general, scientists, medics and population health researchers know a damn sight more about this than anyone in government or the utter crap that is reported in newspapers.
Well, yes, fake synthesised pharmaceuticals that are provided by drug dealers are probably not going to be the safest.
But MDMA created by regulated bodies is currently under trial for legitimate pharmaceutical usage. Decriminalising allows for this regulation to take place (and also for taxation to be applied, which is another matter entirely).
What are your views on the legal state of drugs?
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Drug legality is an area of legislation so ludicrous that governments should be utterly ashamed of themselves and citizens should point this out at every opportunity.
Governments should legalise based on population health but instead they legalise based on what is profitable. Cannabis is no more dangerous than tobacco (in this country it is nearly always smoked mixed with tobacco). There are people who shouldn't smoke cannabis because of known risk factors but, in general, criminalising it is just ridiculous. Although I don't partake, I was fully behind the government's decision to downgrade it as a class of drug, and dismayed when there was a sudden about-face.
Ecstacy is about the safest drug out there (both primarily and in terms of secondary effects) and yet we criminalise those who buy and sell it yet continue to turn a blind eye to alcohol and tobacco. I don't use any illegal drugs but I think there are some I would use if there was proper regulation and education about who should be avoiding them and who they are fine for.
I would decriminalise ecstacy, cannabis and ketamine and consider the position on speed, LSD, coke, phet-water, and things like meow meow (which is a name coined by people who know nothing about it - no-one actually calls it that).
Despite having a friend who uses heroin recreationally, I think crack and heroin are too dangerous for too many people for them to be legalised. In general, scientists, medics and population health researchers know a damn sight more about this than anyone in government or the utter crap that is reported in newspapers.
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Yet they're trying to encourage the criminalization of tobacco... which is interesting since I still haven't seen proof that marijuana is not harmful.
I had a friend take E once. It gave her suicidal thoughts. REAL SAFE
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Well, yes, fake synthesised pharmaceuticals that are provided by drug dealers are probably not going to be the safest.
But MDMA created by regulated bodies is currently under trial for legitimate pharmaceutical usage. Decriminalising allows for this regulation to take place (and also for taxation to be applied, which is another matter entirely).