> Especially since the advent of much more powerful synthetics which addicts seem to prefer and demand, there's little doubt we have no choice but to keep these things out of the hands of people.
Nobody wants to get fentanyl-spiked heroin, dangerous synthetic cannabinoids, or random phenylethylamines with no history of human use when instead they could be respectively smoking opium, growing their own marijuana, and taking mushrooms as has been done for thousands of years.
> While some highly conscientious slice of the population can handle some recreational use (i.e. a few burning man friends)
So your asshole Burning Man tech-bro friends can get a pass, but the lower classes must pay for the same transgressions.
> If we increased addiction 20x via legalization, and then had to roll back legalization in order to deal with the crises, the 'cartels' that would appear would have 20x the market.
It's absolutely absurd to think that addiction would rise 20x. For a lot of drugs and their current rates of usage that's probably not even possible! Actually think about it, if heroin suddenly became legal would you personally just go out and buy it? Because of where I have lived for the last decade it would be easy to get high-quality heroin within 30 minutes, with no risk other than a $5 bribe, but I have never had any urge to go out and buy heroin. Why would I? I have even tried heroin once in the distant past and used other drugs frequently like cocaine, mushrooms, LSD, MDMA, opium, etc... I could still get most of these but have no interest.
This comment and the other you've made on this article are so filled with contorted arguments that it's difficult to even start.
Nobody wants to get fentanyl-spiked heroin, dangerous synthetic cannabinoids, or random phenylethylamines with no history of human use when instead they could be respectively smoking opium, growing their own marijuana, and taking mushrooms as has been done for thousands of years.
> While some highly conscientious slice of the population can handle some recreational use (i.e. a few burning man friends)
So your asshole Burning Man tech-bro friends can get a pass, but the lower classes must pay for the same transgressions.
> If we increased addiction 20x via legalization, and then had to roll back legalization in order to deal with the crises, the 'cartels' that would appear would have 20x the market.
It's absolutely absurd to think that addiction would rise 20x. For a lot of drugs and their current rates of usage that's probably not even possible! Actually think about it, if heroin suddenly became legal would you personally just go out and buy it? Because of where I have lived for the last decade it would be easy to get high-quality heroin within 30 minutes, with no risk other than a $5 bribe, but I have never had any urge to go out and buy heroin. Why would I? I have even tried heroin once in the distant past and used other drugs frequently like cocaine, mushrooms, LSD, MDMA, opium, etc... I could still get most of these but have no interest.
This comment and the other you've made on this article are so filled with contorted arguments that it's difficult to even start.