Let's legalize meth, and every other such recreational drug.

[backscatter712]

9. People shoot up meth because it's easier to come by than less harmful stimulants...

because they're all illegal.

It's just that people can cook meth out of household chemicals.

If it was legal, people wouldn't actually be doing meth.

Maybe they'd be doing something like Adderall (which is a cocktail of amphetamines), which happens to be made in pharmaceutical facilities, and doesn't have shit like Coleman gas and Drano in it.

People wouldn't be shooting black tar heroin, they'd get pharmaceutical grade morphine.

IMHO, what we should have is legalized recreational (or addiction-management) prescriptions. Of course, the drugs I talk about are pretty potent, and kill people when they overdose. So if you're addicted, or just want to get high, you would go to a doctor, and get a script explicitly and legally to get wasted. He'd write up the dose, check you out to make sure the dose won't instantly kill you, maybe even give you some place to lie down when you shoot up, and keep an eye on you if you have a bad reaction, and make sure you don't get behind the wheel of a car or something if you're too wasted to drive.