Should cocaine be legalized?

@basilfawlty89 I don't known about that. I was on that boat before novel research chemical drugs started to be invented, but I kinda think just the classical and well documented ones should be. At least for proud tion and distribution. However, nobody was asking for synthetic weed or bath salts over the real things they are intended to mimic. So availability and legalization of the classic ones would put a huge damper in the market for the mimics.

@MethDozer that's a fair point. I mean let's take heroin, if people are given the pure medical grade variant, it's much safer than the street alternatives, which can be cut with other shit or spoked with fentanyl.

@basilfawlty89 Totally. Offing a few junkies with a hot shot in a new batch is a marketing strategy. A few users OD and the rest are running to buy that strong shit.


Sure, I find heroin use absolutely vile and users as by and large absolutely loathsome. But that doesn't justify the costs to society through criminalization. Just fire them from work and cut them out of your personal life.

@MethDozer I don't use any illegal drugs personally, pot is legal here, but I rarely smoke it. I mainly just drink alcohol and use nicotine.

That said though I don't find junkies loathsome. Most junkies I've met have had really shitty lives and developed their addiction by way of maladaptive coping. I sympathize with them. I don't believe in cutting them off from society. I feel their should be community support and resources allocated for them to either recover or if they are gonna use, use safely.

@basilfawlty89 I absolutely find them so. Because if what the substance does to the heart and soul of them. However, I would rather lift them up out of it when they want to be than to kick them down and keep them there. And yes, I would rather then be alive and as healthy as possible with their addiction than again, to kick then down even further. There's a sympathy and repulsion there. That's duality.