I feel like maybe curiosity would get some people to try harder drugs if they were legal. And are there hard drugs that can be used casually without becoming highly addictive to individuals who otherwise don’t have an addictive personality? Could the average person try heroin or meth and say, “well that was neat, but I don’t have an urge to do that again”? I think you’d have to balance that somehow. Making hard drugs legal probably won’t turn the addicts of East Van back into high functioning individuals. I don’t think it’s the illegality of hard drugs that has them on the streets. The advantage of legalization though would probably be to keep the users safer, and cut the red tape of safe injection sites and programs. I suppose there isn’t a lot known about legal hard drugs and whether it would somehow help to open up the market to everything.
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