If we make the hard drugs cheap, available and of known dosage and purity, what serious indirect harm is there? My body, my choice, my problem and nobody else's. I'm open to being shown wrong.
pehaps none to you. Or many others. But many cannot control their cravings (myself included @ times) and if substances like which we are speaking were available @ the drug store there would undoubtedly be higher mortality rates associated with the ease of purchase.
it's a moral conundrum really. Is allowing people to make life decisions like this so easily a good thing? Thereby possibly increasing the rate of natural selection. Which would undoubtedly have an end result of a stronger species. A species more apt to make situation appropriate decisions on dosage or under which circumstances to ingest such a product?....sounds plausible anyway.
the more immediate hurdle is that no one wants to see a loved one crash and burn due to overuse/abuse of such things. Most anymore have witnessed or experienced personally the effects of these things. Therefore in my opinion the laws regarding harder drugs anyway will never be changed.
but lets get off the specific topic of some of the mainstream drugs ie. heroin/cocaine/amphetamines. All of which have byproducts that are legitimate uses in the medical field. What about the new designer drugs like bath salts or that spice shit or whatever. Things that are chemical concotions which have no use whatsoever. Other than to get you fucked up. Shouldn't society be protected somewhat from some money hungry capitalist whose only goal is to make as much money as quickly as possible? Regardless of the impact his product has? Especially on young impressionable teens?
I don't see any benefit in this.
Bear, tell me what choice a crack baby has or an infant born into opiate withdraw? Tell me again how a mother with a crack addiction is great for society and should be condoned. Tell me how Markel was so addicted to cocaine in the late 1800s that he could no longer operate and that was a good thing. You think because it's legal that people still wont' spend their whole S.S. check on it and go rob someone for more? Whats the vetting process for the mentally ill? Or you just think pcp and bath salts should be available to schizophrenics and bi polar disorder affected people readily? Legislation isn't for the high minded, legislation is for the masses that operate on a lower social consciousness.
Also, your choice affects those around you..
Heroin is pretty damn cheap already btw, the problem is the addiction doesn't stop when your pay runs out.
I don't see all addicts as worthless at all. I do believe people deserve to be treated. I just don't think that putting up Crack-Mart is the best idea.
all very good points. As far as the addicted mothers who give birth to addicted children. They should be punished severely. To me doing that to an unborn child is tantamount to attempt murder. I do feel for the mothers though. I'm sure most if actually given a choice would never do such a thing their children. That is the thing with those drugs. After a point the user loses all ability to choose.....been there.
another unpopular opinion: any mother giving birth to a drug addicted baby should be subject to forced sterilization. Harsh? Absolutely. Too fucking bad. They made their choice. They should be forced to live with the consequences of their actions for the rest of their lives. Just as their poor child has too. By doing so would also prevent this atrocity from being committed again.
you make good points sir
- You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to kinetic again.
I am not arguing that drugs are safe. They obviously are not. However, nobody has ever shown that the cost of using drugs exceeds the cost of arbitrary legislation criminalizing their possession and use.
We have a philosophical difference. I think the legislation works against the "people with lower social consciousness". I don't want a totalitarian nanny state as the consequence of protecting people from bad choices and their consequences. You may think me cruel for this, but hard experience is a much better and more instructive teacher than a protective policy. Jmo.
we are in agreement here....mostly.
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I don't think you'll stop this train quite yet though. 
