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Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus
I get the lesser of two evils stance, but you've got massive problems as a society if you're willing to accept teenagers are going to experiment with cocaine, mdma and lsd, but so long as there's no fentanyl in it, we can deal with it? I don't have the answers, but I can guarantee this leads to a whole new level of addiction the more you normalize consumption of harder drugs like this.
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You and the rest of us tbh. There's no stopping people in this country from experimenting without somehow completely eradicating the supply in a literal war on drugs (yikes), and even then, it's entirely likely people just manufacture alternative methods of getting high that are just as or perhaps even more dangerous to their health, ie. huffing paint/jenkem/doing whippits et al. there's no shortage of ways for humans to get messed up.
I don't think anyone here can guarantee anything outside of our own situations, and for my own part I can say without a doubt that legal cocaine wouldn't have me using it on any regular basis. Would more conservative people discover drugs later in life and would that result in problems for them? I can see that being the case, and this is where Education (and possibly some physical/mental health based screening for licensed purchasing might be effective) and social programs that focus on honest communication about this stuff and establishing support systems for people needs to be a priority. I would like to think that with legalization there'd be fewer otherwise normal, curious, but generally responsible people, dying from horrible overdoses. Which to me is the current issue, but maybe it's not, maybe it really doesn't get any better than the current situation.