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Legalizing recreational drug use

Which drugs should be legal for recreational use in some form?

  • marijuana

    Votes: 78 100.0%

  • cocaine

    Votes: 35 44.9%

  • LSD

    Votes: 43 55.1%

  • ecstasy (MDMA)

    Votes: 39 50.0%

  • meth

    Votes: 29 37.2%

  • shrooms

    Votes: 57 73.1%

  • heroin

    Votes: 29 37.2%
  • Total voters
    78
Jesse Booth said:
LSD is, bizarrely enough, one of the safer drugs in terms of how hard it is to overdose on it. This is probably due to the fact that it was originally engineered to incapacitate massed infantry. It also isn't very addictive.
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Back in the day, I was acquainted with some LSD users who were somewhat addled.
While there may have been other factors involved, frequent LSD use was a common link.
That being said, I'm not in favor of jailing users of any drug.
 
Fledermaus said:
Legal with an insurance policy in place to cover stupid things done while stoned....

A Doper plan....
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Don’t follow; there is no such insurance rider for alcohol, that I know of.....
 
Jesse Booth said:
We've already been down the road of prohibition many times with many drugs, and all we've accomplished is the expansion of a police state and of a prison industrial complex. Decriminalization combined with a social safety net of rehabilitation clinics is a tried-and-true method to reduce drug overdoses and addiction.

We COULD take the same approach used by certain East Asian nations, but their approaches are viable for cultural and geographic reasons that will never be part of America - and just between you and me, I wouldn't want to adopt the cultural framework of those countries in the first place.
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Exactly. Prohibition of a good for which there is a market just means the market will have criminals doing the buying/selling. It doesn't prevent squat. Prohibition has given us the mafia and drug cartels, yet we don't as a society seem to lean the lesson.

Of course the mafia, cartels and the gubment structures built to combat them make out like bandits.
 
radioman said:
Back in the day, I was acquainted with some LSD users who were somewhat addled.
While there may have been other factors involved, frequent LSD use was a common link.
That being said, I'm not in favor of jailing users of any drug.
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Maybe it should be illegal to sell as well, but for the time being, I find that addictiveness and lethality are the best straight guidelines to oppose any drug sales with, both current and future.

For everything else, there's the merits of a well-educated populace to focus on.
 
Rexedgar said:
Don’t follow; there is no such insurance rider for alcohol, that I know of.....
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Perhaps there should be.

I am all for anyone putting anything into their bodies as long as me and mine don't pay for it.

I would rather Biff pay for his own stupidity when he does something stupid. Alcohol is an issue when someone drives. Auto insurance ponies up for that.

What if Biff is stoned while working on something you own. Will auto insurance cover Biff when he whacks his BMW into your vehicle under the influence of LSD?
 
Jesse Booth said:
Maybe it should be illegal to sell as well, but for the time being, I find that addictiveness and lethality are the best straight guidelines to oppose any drug sales with, both current and future.

For everything else, there's the merits of a well-educated populace to focus on.
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Wouldn’t the bolded fix so many issues?
 
Fledermaus said:
Perhaps there should be.

I am all for anyone putting anything into their bodies as long as me and mine don't pay for it.

I would rather Biff pay for his own stupidity when he does something stupid. Alcohol is an issue when someone drives. Auto insurance ponies up for that.

What if Biff is stoned while working on something you own. Will auto insurance cover Biff when he whacks his BMW into your vehicle under the influence of LSD?
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...I actually rather like that idea.
 
All. If this is a free society people shouldn't be stopped from doing whatever they want to themselves even if the rest of the world thinks they're nuts.
That position presupposes that people have access to accurate information on the risks they undertake if they decide to take certain substances.

I'd also enhance penalties for committing other crimes while under the influence.
 
Of the ones listed, I favor legalizing marijuana, LSD, MDMA, and psilocybin. Strongly against heroin and meth, I don't think there's any way they can be used responsibly. Cocaine I'm on the fence about.
 
Vehemently opposed to the drug war as being one of the most egregiously futile money pits going.

However the truly physically addictive stuff that I'm uncomfortable with legalizing; that **** can cause someone's life to spiral to ruin extremely quickly even after fairly casual usage, and rehabilitation is costly and arduous when it happens at all. If there is any value in any aspect of the drug war, it would be limiting the exposure of the public to these kinds of narcotics. Thus, in general, I think drugs that create powerful dependencies quickly would be where I draw the line, but I'm certainly open to being persuaded otherwise if there happens to be good evidence to the contrary.
 
In Saint Paul there are "wet houses".....places for the boozers to go and drink themselves to death.

https://www.twincities.com/2010/12/04/at-st-paul-wet-house-liquor-can-be-their-life-and-death/

I see no reason why there should not be something similar for druggies......at least if they die its not in the middle of the road and an inconvenience to everyone else.

If you want to drink or blaze up and get wasted, its none of my biz.....just dont do it in such a way that harms others, like behind the wheel of a car.

It really sucks finding bodies during the spring thaw after a Minnesota winter.
 
Pot.

That's it.
 
It's already legal, under "pursuit of happiness " and "freedom to choose";

There are some unconstitutional laws against it though.
 
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