U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory: Marijuana Use and the Developing Brain

Re:U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory: Marijuana Use and the De... by sharadov on Friday August 30, 2019 @12:02AM (#20835886)

That's the libertarian approach, which says legalize everything, tax everything. Am with you on it, although am not sure, how that would work with hard drugs ( cocaine,mushrooms,LSD, ecstasy,heroin). Again within hard drugs - cocaine is vastly different from doing LSD. A single dose of LSD in a bad setting could mess your psyche up for life. What you are doing is choosing the better of two evils.I would rather buy a pure form of LSD from Pfizer that one from a street dealer with a nefarious source and containing crap knows what!

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Re:U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory: Marijuana Use and the De... by donw on Friday August 30, 2019 @12:29AM (#20835983)

I'd say more pragmatic than purely libertarian. :)

You still need a regulatory framework, and I would strongly argue for compulsory education on drug use, not to mention treatment programs, all of which should be funded through use taxes.

Otherwise, though, I agree very much with the libertarians that that empowering individuals to make their own life-choices is far more beneficial to society than criminalization and prohibition.

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Re:U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory: Marijuana Use and the De... by sharadov on Friday August 30, 2019 @12:35AM (#20836004)

I think when you give people the facts and remove the stigma and the "mystery" surrounding drugs, you will get people to start making wise choices - to counteract it you need a sound education policy, not the fear-mongering that goes in the name of education now.

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Re:U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory: Marijuana Use and the De... by tryitnow on Friday August 30, 2019 @11:28AM (#20839529)

Thanks for making that distinction. I think the purely libertarian approach has the risk to do more harm than good.

Without education, social support, and access to mental health care, a drug free-for-all could very well lead to such disastrous results that there is a backlash that returns us right back to criminalization and prohibition.

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