eschereal’s post is food for thought.
However, I based my list largely on practicality and risk.
All the items I listed can easily be grown in a garden, or basement. Or made very, very simply. Therefore, as a matter of practicality, their use cannot truly be prevented.
All the items on the list can be used at no risk of overdose, or serious short-term illness.
I could be wrong, but I believe that both hashish and psychedelic mushrooms can lead to (or at the very least exacerbate) serious short-term psychological illness, much like LSD did in eschereal’s case. Is that incorrect?
I think it’s pretty well established that it would. The real issue is the crime, incarceration inequities, and destruction affect the lower classes. Transfer the same ills to the middle-class and we’d see a huge turnaround on how we deal with the issues.
Who cares, if it is legal the shit will be $20 bucks a pound out of a bin at Drugs R Us.
Oh shit I feel the desire to do more, do it, who cares.
While technically not Crystal meth, at least one methamphetamine product actually sits in Schedule II, approved for use in patients with Attention Deficit Disorder, under the brand name Desoxyn. It’s also used off-label for treatment resistent depression. It’s very rarely used, but it exists.
Eh, without the smell to go along with it, necrotic flesh isn’t THAT terrifying to look at, at least for me. I’m a bit odd in the head though.
I’m in Hirka’s camp on this one. Legalization, no, decriminalization along with increased funding for substance detoxification/maintenance therapeutic modalities, yes. I’m fine with leaving the selling of drugs, outside of officially ok’ed channels like hospitals and pharmacies, as illegal and prosecutable.