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OmegaTomHank posted...

A: What exactly are you encouraging to be legalized? All drugs? Make it a total unregulated free for all?

My end game would look something like the US pulling out of the War on Drugs, but not necessarily abandoning regulations entirely for dangerous refined substances. For instance, I would not be opposed to requiring a type of recreational prescription for cocaine and heroin. I most certainly don't want these things showing up in food products and soft drinks.

The key point here is personal use of a plant should not be a crime. Industrial use of refined derivative substances is another matter entirely. So that will require keeping some regulations on the books.

I would take money currently being spent on the DEA and plow that into farming subsidies. This is for a very simple reason: as long as the cartels can produce a black market product cheaper than domestic, we're going to continue to have problems.

OmegaTomHank posted...

B: Do you think drug abuse only affects the indivdual consuming the drugs?

Sometimes it does only affect one person, sometimes it doesn't. It's not black and white.

Let's assume the worst, that it always has a negative ripple effect- what's worse: the system we have now, where the criminal nature of drug addiction complicates support efforts, or the system we could have where those barriers are removed?

OmegaTomHank posted...

C: Are you pro or against the FDA?

The FDA isn't perfect, but it's by a wide margin better than nothing. The FDA was established because having nothing was a disaster.



Additional Thoughts: The stifling of research into substances like LSD-25 and Psilocybin for treatment of depression and anxiety may in future decades be looked back upon as one of the great travesties of the 20th century.
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