Quote from: jtipt on January 27, 2018, 08:33:33 AM

many synthetic drugs pose only dangers

That is most definitely true and I agree with your opinion. But even "hard" drugs like heroin should be decriminalized, IMO, and I know that stance is controversial, but my take on it is that most of the crime associated with heroin has to do with its illegality. I could be wrong, but locking up drug addicts doesn't help solve the problem of addiction. I work in a drug treatment facility and I don't even think we're helping 75% of them in any meaningful way. Addiction is extremely powerful. Addicts are basically those experimental mice that keep pressing the cocaine lever and starve themselves to death rather than take time off from the drug to eat. You can't scare them into getting clean and you can't even reason with them if they're using. It's very, very hard to treat. But anyway, it's a good thing those synthetics that get sold in bodegas haven't really caught on. Synthetics such as carfentanyl ought to be banned.

Quote from: Subal_Damudar on February 05, 2018, 03:14:35 AM

Have you ever lost someone to OD? Have you ever had to tell a mother that their son will no longer back back because he was too high and thought jumping off a 10 storey building would mean he could fly? This kind of whimsical questions make me sick.
Think about it, drug means more rage, more out of control people, more hooliganism, more death, more anarchy. No government want this.

But is it actually helping anyone (society, the individual, the families) by making this stuff illegal? I really don't think so.