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In reply to the discussion: In all honesty I'd rather see cocaine legalized over pot [View all]panzerfaust
(2,818 posts)but I see this from at least one cocaine user a week.
That said, I think both of these naturally occurring molecules should be legalized - along with most others.
Still though the molecules which reliably trigger extreme aggression - such as the phencyclidines - should remain beyond the pale & would be easier to interdict than they are now with the situation where much (? possibly most) police time is spent chasing after people using drugs which are no more dangerous than alcohol.
Not that alcohol is innocuous - but you may recall the Great Experiment of prohibition and how that gave criminals control of local governments - control which The War on Drugs has now taken to the national level.
When drugs are outlawed, only outlaws have drugs - which much of the rest of the population then happily buys.