/sci/ - Science & Math

If marijuana was legalised it would probably go the way of tobacco AND alcohol combined:

- Illegal to grow your own (how the fuck do you expect your tax argument to hold up if you're not buying it from anywhere?)
- Sold in stores alongside cigarettes and pouches
- 18+ or 21+
- Illegal to smoke and drive (fair enough)
- Insurance would likely cover you for fewer things, or at a higher cost
- Illegal to smoke it in public

Personally I'm fine with it being legal. I overheard a conversation once and it was said "If you have a room of 100 people on alcohol, and a room of 100 people on marijuana, I know what room I'd rather be in." Which is very true. Someone's gonna get punched in the alcohol room.

But I also acknowledge it's a slippery slope to the decriminalisation of other drugs. But is that a bad thing? Talk to anyone who's seen the inside of a drug lab. You can say all you want about "Oh LSD and MDMA et al are fine for you!" Yes that may be true, but there is *zero* quality control or production regulations on illegal drugs. So if they were decriminalised they could be made pure, in a laboratory, by a scientist, under strict hygienic and production regulations.

Drugs aren't going anywhere, so would the most sensible thing not be to resort to "best practise" by improving quality, improving dosage/usage education, and removing the black market?

A cone pointed downwards.

Read a Culture novel by Iain M Banks. It's as close as we'll get. And it works for them because robots do all the work.