Hmmmm true, I could see cocaine coming in a pill form and marketed like an adderall tho

A coke high is short-lived, but If pill manufactures made an extended release capsule it could work.

Yeah snorting coke is short lived but if it was in pill form I wonder if it’d extend the high

can you even imagine someone on congress even TRYING to get approval for the legalization of meth and heroin? do you really think that is going to get passed and voted in? it was hard enough to get weed legal in the past

man I lost a handful of people I knew to fentanyl overdoses these few months

Peru did it. The point is making d**** illegal isn’t going to stop the people that use those d****. Why should they be put in prison for it?

I think it might have been cause people on d**** might do things that hurt others. It puts people at risk besides the d*** user themselves.

By the way just want to make it clear I believe in rehabilitation and helping their personal situation so they are less likely to turn to d****.

Countries that have legalized d**** have seen no spike in those addicted, but they have seen less prisoners, and a drop in d*** related violence.

To cite an article on Portugal, first country to decriminalize all d****:

Seventeen years on, the U.S. is suffering its worst addiction epidemic in American history. In 2016 alone, an estimated 64,000 Americans died from opioid overdoses—more than the combined death tolls for Americans in the Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq Wars. In Portugal, meanwhile, the d***-induced death rate has plummeted to five times lower than the E.U. average and stands at one-fiftieth of the United States’. Its rate of HIV infection has dropped from 104.2 new cases per million in 2000 to 4.2 cases per million in 2015. D*** use has declined overall among the 15- to 24-year-old population, those most at risk of initiating d*** use.

But you're missing the point that it IS easily accessible. I can throw a rock and hit a crack dealer. To anyone that was ever considering doing crack, the options are ALWAYS present, illegality has not changed that whatsoever. Educate yourself, we all know d**** are bad.

Which further proves my point. Fentanyl cut d**** are a direct result of them being illegal, thus leading dealers to cut them with cheap substances to maximize profit and potency.

You think pearls won’t cut their s*** and charge a s***load for it? And a lot of people that die from fent know what they’re taking.

And a lot of people don't. A Fent wave hit real bad around here, and because of everything exchanging hands and people getting from similar plugs nobody could guarantee their Xans were not pressed with Fent. Happens often.

That’s true but still. Pretty sure pharmacies selling these types of d**** don’t want to be responsible for many possible deaths. You know how shady it is now imagine how shady it’d be getting heroin from the d*** store. People already think if something is legal that means it’s ok for you.

If you’re dumb enough to shoot up heroin or meth, you should have the right to do that. Alcohol is harmful also.

Stores ask for some sort of confirmation that the buyer is 18/21+ y/o, dealers won‘t.

If they were legal it would remove the need to buy s*** batches and fentanyl contamination and s***

I don’t think legality really changes people’s opinions. I don’t know anyone whose changed their opinion on weed now that it’s legal cause they still see it as previously illegal

I definitely think so. Many people just assume that if something is illegal there is a good reason for it. Not everybody is doing the research.

Maybe for
The next generation, but I also don’t think the stigma would go away

At least that’s how it is here in the states

every day i became more and more just legalise everything

its obvs prohibition doesn't work

Godless opinion, idc

I mean, they are illegal in theory because misusing them can be detrimental to your health, but in practice it has more to do with classism and racism.

If you look at the history of d**** in the U.S. typically substances are made illegal based on who is profiting off them.

For example, opium wasn’t really banned or really even seen as bad anywhere in America until anti-Chinese sentiments became popular in the late 1800’s. Chinese immigrants were profiting off the d***, so law makers demonized opium dens and Chinese men, which led to local bans and eventually made it federally illegal. This put the power to sell the d*** in white hands almost exclusively.

A little later on, weed was made illegal in the 1930’s due to the fact that black and brown people were both using it and profiting off of it. The U.S. demonized the d*** simply by weaponizing American racism against Black smokers and sellers in the eastern part of the country and Mexican and Native American smokers and sellers out West. If we look at weed legalization right now, it’s no mistake that white people are now the main ones profiting off its legalization and popularity growth. This is what the U.S. does.