despite how I may come across I am completely anti-drug and some what anti-alchol (mainly do to addictions within my family)
they may be fun and can not harm some it still will do bad to society
what may be one fun night to a couple of 20 year olds
will be the end to some regular persons
Although I see where you're coming from, drugs can be powerful therapeutic tools when used correctly. A hallucinogenic alkaloid called
ibogaine can help treat opiate addiction.
LSD helps with alcoholism and helps terminally ill patients come to terms with death and accept it without the immense depression.
Psilocybin (the tryptamine alkaloid related to DMT) can cure cluster headaches, which can be described as a pain worse than death, akin to the
Cruciatus curse.
Opioids, of course, relieve pain and are anti-diarrheal.
MDMA (ecstasy) can potentially help people with severe PTSD. Hell, even
meth helps with ADHD. And you've seen the effects of medical
cannabis. It helps with multiple sclerosis, dementia, it's the most effective nonaddictive painkiller, it's antioxidant (helps prevent certain cancers), stimulates growth and increased neural connections in the brain, and many of these things are on Schedule 1 of the US Controlled Substances Act, which means that these compounds that have plenty of proven medical uses aren't accepted as medicine simply because pharmaceutical lobbyists want to make money making new drugs with tons of side effects.
Put simply, these substances are useful and many (except the really bad ones) should be available for people to use. People are going to buy drugs anyways, and why make all of the money go into the black market into the hands of drug lords and hardened criminals? It should be taxed and regulated just like anything else. Colorado proved that this works with cannabis earlier this year. The first week cannabis was available for sale legally, the government made over $5 million off of taxes from cannabis alone and much of that money went to schools.
I believe that instead of the "lock up the drug users although many are harmless," we should have a rehabilitation and harm reduction plan instead. Instead of forcing opiate users to go through withdrawal in jail, we should try to restore them to an opiate-free life through methadone replacement therapy.
Ps, by your logic, caffeine and nicotine should be banned too because they're psychoactive.
pps, I'm not trying to insult anyone here, just trying to prove my point that is pro-legalization of anything that is not habit-forming and pro-harm reduction instead of filling our already overfilled privatized for-profit prison systems.
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