Drug categorisation and legalization

"I don"t believe that should be acceptable for tobacco and alcohol to destroy lives. They are legal but we are unable to control them and I think the same could happen with meth, cocaine and heroin. Regulated doses? Good luck with that, addicts are very creative with finding ways to get as much as they want." Regulated doses are possible, as many addicts sustain addiction. On emotional decisions: It is not a question of emotional validity, but IF it is emotional. You don't get to decide which decisions are fake, that needs to be calculated. The rest of your second paragraph is largely an appeal to emot. Reward systems are malleable. On tax: without increased use (see below) there is no reason to think that crime would increase. Red herring. Drug pushers don't have a say, their market prefers quality, cheap, safe, legal. What will they do? Medical meth: "approved by FDA for treating ADHD and exogenous obesity" [http://en.wikipedia.org...] Recreational use will persist, like it or not, as we see, so make it safer. On creativity: How childishly poetic. IMPORTANT: http://en.wikipedia.org... https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com... -mathematical theorem regarding NOR gate circuits -new conceptual model of a photon, which was found useful Alcohol and tobacco are legal BECAUSE we are unable to control them. We ARE able to make drugs much safer. Prohibition saw cartels, massive income for black markets, and alcohol subject to poor manufacture. It is only circumstantial that alcohol is easy to produce (hence it is one of the first processed psychoactive drugs to be distributed recreationally). Moonshine epidemics in countries where alcohol is legal but not safely producible shows that it can be extremely dangerous in this context (as any substance or food). "Last year, 4,251 heroin users died as a result of using the drug. 80% of those deaths were caused directly by the drug in combination with alcohol or other drugs. About 10% were caused directly by heroin alone. The remaining 10% were caused by the drug together with suicide, accidents, murders, or medical disorders." [http://www.intheknowzone.com...] Up to 90% reduction of death seems worthwhile. This is the MOST DANGEROUS of your listed drugs. See below for evidence that prohibition does not reduce use, though it does increase danger and black market fund, as well as tax cost, incarceration, and prison population released to society. This is backed up by the notably small increase in heroin use in Portugal during legalization. Carrying forward from the fact that alcohol and tobacco are legal due to tr ease of distribution and access, not their active properties, it should be noted that nicotine is: -more addictive than LSD,Psilocybin,Caffine,Mescaline,MDMA,*COCAINE*,alcohol -more lethal than LSD,Psilocybin,Cannabis,N.O.,Ephedra,Caffine. -Mutagenic (cancerous) Alcohol is: -more lethal than Morphine,Cocaine,MDMA,Nicotine,Ketamine,Mescaline,LSD,Psilocybin,Cannabis -toxic to every system in the body, AND releases toxins from the liver by inhibiting normal function. [http://upload.wikimedia.org...] I can verify these claims with pharmacological evidence about the reward pathways and cyclic use. Also note that imprisonment being as dangerous as it is in comparison to rehabilitation is evidence enough alone that legalization and regulation will put less citizens in jail, safe tax money, and send less violent criminals back into society after prison indoctrination. [http://upload.wikimedia.org...] "When the Prohibition era in the United States began on January 19, 1920, [..] previous attempts in America had fared poorly. When a Massachusetts town banned the sale of alcohol in 1844, an enterprising tavern owner took to charging patrons for the price of seeing a striped pig"the drinks came free with the price of admission. When Maine passed a strict prohibition law in 1851, the result was not temperance, but resentment among the city's working class and Irish immigrant population. A deadly riot in Portland in 1855 lead to the law's repeal" [http://www.pbs.org...] As we see, prohibition had little effect on the consumption... [http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov...] Also worth noting is that nootropics or alternative, safer drugs like LSD or cannabis could have positive effects on that college student class who so heavily consume alcohol in their frat parties etc. Contrasting with heroin, where preparation and consumption obviously have greater implications on safety, it seems that it would be best to legalize, regulate and educate. People aren't going to start shooting up because it is legal, but they will be able to seek help for addiction.