Woman sues DEA for impersonating her on Facebook without her knowledge - Polidicks

Most if not all hard drugs need to remain illegal under any circumstances (I don't care if you're a consenting adult, hard drugs are literal poison and they shouldn't be allowed on a legal basis, period). For recreational drugs like marijuana, some control as far as age limits should be instigated, but that should be it imo. There's also the matter of LSD which I don't think should be completely made illegal but shouldn't be made fully legal either. Probably some form of intermediary control would be good.

this is quite dangerous, considering cartels these days just make people disappear w/o trace aka die in horrible ways ...

identity theft done by the goverement. wow what a terrible country

[QUOTE=FurrehFaux;46217657]But back then it was a health crisis when the FDA [I]wasn't[/I] regulating anything. It would have been much better to regulate the purity instead of outright banning it.[/QUOTE] It's not the purity that's the issue, it's the unsupervised use of opiates. And if you tax and regulate it - and you'll need taxes, because how else will this all be funded? - then the cartels and smugglers will still exist. It's the worst of both worlds.

[QUOTE=Griffster26;46218116]Meth, cocaine and heroin are always going to be deadly.[/QUOTE] All 3 of those are used in medicine today, heroin is used widely in the UK. I was given shots of it in hospital in the first few days.

[QUOTE=FurrehFaux;46218418]Which is why we should educate people on how to use drugs instead of just throwing them out there and saying "here you go". That's debatable. When used over and over again, MDMA [I]is[/I] neurotoxic to the dopamine system, but again, we should educate people on how to use it. Your tolerance will always go back down to what it was before you started using, it's your brain's way of maintaining homeostasis. Not getting the same high as the first time you used it is entirely psychological. We don't really know what would happen to society because a full-on legalization hasn't been attempted in this day and age. We can only speculate what would happen. However, by seeing what happened with portugaul after decriminalizing all drugs, we can make an accurate prediction as to what would happen here in america (i.e. crime, overdose, etc. would go down significantly). A large majority of overdoses are caused by the wildly varying impurities in clandestine-made substances. That means one batch of heroin could be a lot more potent than another, depending on what it's cut with. Letting the government regulate the purity would eliminate that risk.[/QUOTE] You keep on saying "educate people", as if that were something simple. All that approach would lead to is an even bigger drug problem in poor Hispanic and black areas, as those are the races most likely to drop out of school. Not to mention that poor children are five times as likely to drop out as those who are better off. Dropouts are more likely to be unemployed, and one in six jobless people have a drug addiction. Your demand for the right to stupefy yourself would condemn entire sections of America who are already desperately behind.

[QUOTE=joe588;46220327]All 3 of those are used in medicine today, heroin is used widely in the UK. I was given shots of it in hospital in the first few days.[/QUOTE] That's controlled and knowledgeable use by trained professionals, not someone buying it off the street and using it, or even a hypothetical person buying it from a licensed dealer and using it. They're such completely different situations that acting like because we use them in modern medicine means they're safe for any random dude to use is really missing a lot of detail.

[QUOTE=joe588;46220327]All 3 of those are used in medicine today, heroin is used widely in the UK. I was given shots of it in hospital in the first few days.[/QUOTE] We use Botulinum toxin for Botox, doesn't mean its safe.

[QUOTE=joe588;46220327]All 3 of those are used in medicine today, heroin is used widely in the UK. I was given shots of it in hospital in the first few days.[/QUOTE] Oh sick, it's used in hospitals so its good? Glad I can finally shoot up morphine without social stigma now