There is also the issue of QA in the supply chain (to be clear, by making this comment I'm not necessarily saying that the GP in particular didn't have pure DMT).
I've seen multiple studies, mostly looking at pills sold as MDMA, which examined the actual content of samples of street drugs, and the findings were not exactly surprising - almost all samples were not pure (I mean, aside from cutting agents!) MDMA, often containing significant amounts of amphetamine.
In a legal, regulated marketplace, there are guarantees of quality, which would represent a huge increase in safety for drug users.
With a legal marketplace, production would also shift from global cartels to local businesses - improving lives, creating local jobs and increasing tax revenues.
The fact is that there will always be a market for drugs - people have afterall used drugs for millennia - so why not accept that and try to make something better of it?
There are of course risks to taking any drugs, just as there are with alcohol - but the potential for good by legalising is staggering.
I've seen multiple studies, mostly looking at pills sold as MDMA, which examined the actual content of samples of street drugs, and the findings were not exactly surprising - almost all samples were not pure (I mean, aside from cutting agents!) MDMA, often containing significant amounts of amphetamine.
In a legal, regulated marketplace, there are guarantees of quality, which would represent a huge increase in safety for drug users.
With a legal marketplace, production would also shift from global cartels to local businesses - improving lives, creating local jobs and increasing tax revenues.
The fact is that there will always be a market for drugs - people have afterall used drugs for millennia - so why not accept that and try to make something better of it?
There are of course risks to taking any drugs, just as there are with alcohol - but the potential for good by legalising is staggering.