Comment · Thu, September 5, 2013
RANT on "Should ALL drugs be legal?"
Original post in this thread
[deleted] · 30 points
I am a firm believer that I have the right to put whatever chemical I want in my body (from a legal standpoint), and I am not alone in this mindset. This logical type of thinking brings a lot of us to the idea that all drugs should be legal and regulated. I used to agree with this for a long time until one day I was browsing the web and noticed that Scopolamine could be easily bought with a quick click and a loss of a small amount of btc. I do understand that this drug can be used recreationally at low doses, but the majority of the time it is not. What I am trying to say is what is the rebuttal to the argument that not all drugs are used for recreation and therefore should be prohibited? Some are used to rape, poison, torture, etc. We could just say "Oh, well, only some drugs should be legal and regulated," but doesn't that defeat the argument that once drugs are legal and regulated, people can approach them safely? If we went ahead and legalized marijuana, psychedelics, dissociatives, mdma, and just about any other favorable drug without legalizing "life-ruining" drugs like methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, scopolamine, rufilin, etc., what are we accomplishing? The existence of…
What they were answering
[deleted] · 0 points
I agree that it should still be available in some certain ways. I am just saying that there is no reason to have it available as a pure chemical. I would even go ahead and stretch my opinion out by saying that someone could try it in some form of clinic, but I just see no positive reason on why we should enable it to be just that easy to get, at least in its more dangerous form.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb
Even if it was easy to get in pure form, do you think that would make people more likely to use it? You could get cyanide or arsenic if you want. That does not mean people are going out and doing it.