Your position on Legalizing drugs

We are talking legalization on the federal level. States will have the right to do as they wish. It is a shame that people abuse alcohol to the extent that it causes them death. But what has that got to do with legalizing the Opiods and coke and uppers. I don't want people to take drugs, smoke cigarettes, or drink alcohol. I just don't think that the prohibition on the use of these substances cause far more harm to innocent non users and that out weighs the damage that they choose to inflict on themselves.

 

For the record, in my view the opioids should be withdrawn from the market by responsible corporate leaders, if there is such a thing.

Just as Quaalude was withdrawn from the market in the 80's.

 

no it is not like saying that at all. The main reason that there are traffic laws is to protect the other person so that they can drive safely and walk unhindered.

 

Which will certainly help the potential future addicts who get addicted through pain meds now. It will have no effect on the black market however and the drug crime problem will still be with us, lessened slightly in the future but what it was 10 years ago.

 

Not anymore

Witness motorcycle helmet laws and auto seat belt laws

 

Because they are synthesized in fairly sophisticated labs with sophisticated procedures, if the various opioids were withdrawn from the market, if they were no longer manufactured, there is every reason to believe that ending their production would end their existence and availability. Absent a product, the black market in opioids would cease to exist, just as happened with methaqualone all those years ago.

I cannot remember whether methaqualone was voluntarily removed, or whether the law forced its removal. But I do know that Coca Cola voluntarily removed cocaine from the formula for its product, about 2 years before the Harrison Act was passed.

 

But what does that for the heroin, coke and other drugs. We never sold heroin as a prescription during the 60sto now. The lack of ludes no longer being produced just had people who abuse drugs migrating to coke in the 70s if you recall. Back then illegal drug manufacturing is not what it is now. Industrial production of drugs as shown in Breaking Bad was not even thought of. But speaking to that and your mentioning of ludes

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article...-in-the-uk-are-trying-to-bring-quaaludes-back

 

so punish the many to inconvenience the criminals... many of those 'manufactured drugs' for getting high use ingredients found in everyday cold & flu medicines... the world needs narcotics because those synthetic non-narcotics do little to alleviate pain for many 'normal' folks... or would you prefer them to suffer immensely just to make you 'feel' good...

 

You might be right--neither of us can really predict the future. I consider the opioids to be more dangerous than other drugs, but I might be biased to emotions in that regard, as I have attended far too many funerals for sons and daughters of friends of mine who were killed by opioid overdose and misuse.

My theory is that if those who want to "get high" can do so with more ordinary drugs, they will have no need to acquire black market versions of what may or may not be the drug they seek.