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Originally Posted by Yamer
Because if you do them moderately and properly they are just like any other legal alternative: they are fun.
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There are drugs that even taken moderately and properly can be dangerous. The jolt to the system of a middle-aged or overweight person by even a small amount of cocaine can cause a non-negligible risk of heart attack. I doubt there's any way cocaine or MDMA would ever meet commercial drug safety standards. The reason some of these drugs were prohibited in the first place was the rampant abuse and addiction evident when they were readily available.
And as we're learning with pot, legalizing a drug doesn't make the street source go away. If someone on the street can distribute and sell it cheaper than the legal, licensed, regulated source (and they almost certainly will be able to), then the most vulnerable or heavy users will continue to get that drug from the street.
I don't see how decriminalization or legalization makes this problem go away. Maybe we could someday synthesize drugs that have much the same effect with much less risk. But there will always be people who want the harder, more dangerous stuff from the street because they desperately want to get wasted.