GoldenDelicious
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MattTheSkywalker said:
The only answer is 100% legalization of everything.
i agree with your points bar this one.
while legalisation will bring down the price and remove the criminal element, full legalisation of the more addictive drugs (ie coke, heroin) is unfeasible since they will inevitably kill the user. these drugs are subject to patient tolerance and so a higher dose is needed to produce a high each time. inevitably you will reach lethal levels, or have an accident.
furthermore if legalised only a pharmacist will be allowed to dispense, and ill be damned if i was giving a heavily, perhaps terminally addicted person higher and higher doses. not happening. cant see many of my peers doing it either.
the other point of view is the economic rationalisations and decreases in productivity if drug use was more rampant. england banned opium imports a few hundred years ago since many englishmen were spending all their time in opium dens rather than being productive members of the community, affecting foreign debt (indian).
as i said above, the holland style approach is good, and backed up by studies and literature
of course those people who sell alcohol are lobbying - hard - against such an implementation
anyway, supervision of family and a knowledge of lethal drugs will do for now