Posted by SLS on March 8, 2022, at 20:17:01
In reply to Re: The state of Oregon legalized psilocybin in 2020 » SLS, posted by Jay2112 on March 8, 2022, at 13:33:56
Hi.
I appreciate your posting the information and your perspective. I guess we'll see whether or not Portugal makes a good model for Oregon. It's a great point you made regarding the use of one drug to add to another for illicit distribution.
I chose fentanyl as an example because I could think of no better example among drugs that are easily available to anyone who a doctor will prescribe it for. What about any of the millions of chemical substances that are synthesized to experiment on rats and rhesus monkeys? There are multitudinous "designer" drugs out there that scientists play with. Should they all be allowed to come into circulation legally?
It's that polar position at either end of a spectrum that bothers me.
What if thalidomide got people wonderfully stoned at high dosages? What if were legal to be manufactured by any Mom and Pop chemical lab in their basement without restraint? It was good money. A few years later: Oops.
I have a difficult time supporting the allowance for the unlimited acquisition and distribution of every chemical known, or yet to be known, by man.
Maybe everyone who is reckless, and perhaps dead, when using fentanyl recreationally will suddenly become safe and responsible users when it becomes legal?
I don't know.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
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