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To believe that all drugs should be legalised?

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TheWaryOchreRobin · 08/12/2024 18:13

If alcohol and cigarettes are legal, why not regulate and tax everything else instead of letting criminal gangs profit?

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OldJohn · 08/12/2024 18:37

whereaw · 08/12/2024 18:34

Agree. Alcohol is arguably the most dangerous drug and that's legal.

I studied drugs and alcohol as a post grad student and tobacco is the most dangerous with virtually zero positive benefits.

After graduating I worked helping people reduce or stop their use of illegal drugs, alcohol or tobacco

whereaw · 08/12/2024 18:34

Agree. Alcohol is arguably the most dangerous drug and that's legal.

OldJohn · 08/12/2024 18:33

I agree, if druges were legal they would be safe and the user would know what they were buying.

To often illegal drugs are contaminated with highly dangerous cheap additives.

Createausername1970 · 08/12/2024 18:31

Barbadossunset · 08/12/2024 18:24

How would it work? Would one be able to go into a shop and buy whatever one wanted - heroin, cocaine, marujiana - like one can buy alcohol and fags?

Yes.

So nothing dubious included with it. Has to follow the same strict guidelines applied to food manufacturing.

All profits go to NHS, not some low life on a street corner.

I am in favour of it.

No idea how we get there though.

PoissonOfTheChrist · 08/12/2024 18:27

Crack, crystal meth etc?

Barbadossunset · 08/12/2024 18:24

How would it work? Would one be able to go into a shop and buy whatever one wanted - heroin, cocaine, marujiana - like one can buy alcohol and fags?

CranfordScones · 08/12/2024 18:20

Isn't that effectively how it was until 1971, with a few drugs being controlled by the 1964 laws?

Maybe those laws were enacted for a reason...