LSD should be legalized with restrictions

Let us take a look at some of my adversaries contentions and rebuttals.Rebuttal 1"My opponent makes the argument that LSD is often used as a date rape drug. Although it could, in theory, be used as a date rape drug, it is not the (for lack of a better word) ideal drug for the purpose. Simple alcohol can be used for this purpose, and in fact, remains the most common date rape drug in the world"This argument is filled with bad logic and fails to address the main issue at hand. He claims that alcohol is the most common date rape drug. This could be contested as being true at this present moment in time, or could be shown to be false. Let us accept that alcohol is the most common tool used at this moment. Why is this the case?1. Because its legal2. Because its cheap3. Because its accessible( ties with 1)4. Because of the effectsLSD is much harder to get a hold of than alcohol at this moment. Him stating that it is "not very ideal" is just wrong. When LSD is distilled correctly it is often colorless and odorless. It is also easier to target someone with than alcohol. Take a look at this exampleA rapist and a blonde walk into a bar (just making a pun lol)The rapist is immediately attracted to this girl. He noticed all of her friends are drinking, and he wants to try to find a way to rape her. He walks over to her and offers her a glass of alcohol. She says that she does not drink. Now let us look at what would happen if LSD were legal and the possibilities that could come from it. (A): Knowing that she does not want alcohol would almost kill his ability to rape her in the most "common" was as my adversary has claimed. He could not spike her drink with vodka because it would be immediately noticeable due to the taste. So without having another way to rape her, this attempt is mostly shut down unless he wanted to forcibly rape her and risk going to jail easier.(B): He could use LSD. This is colorless, odorless, and most of the time undetectable. Her friends are drinking and all he has to do is buy her a coke. He could slip this in her drink, and it would be virtually undetectable and then later in the night the loss of conscious would become apparent and he would most surely have his chance. LSD is extremely ideal for raping people, and I have shown this in some of the sources that I cited. The reason that alcohol may surpass this as the most common tool for rape at this moment is because it is legal. It is extremely hard for most common people to go through the channels to get LSD. Now imagine if my adversaries request is granted and we mass produce this. Think about how easily and accessible this drug would be. It would be as easy to get as alcohol. With it being this accessible and a more ideal tool for rape, is it not logical to assume the amount of rapes would go up? In fact I will guarantee that it will. If you could rape someone just by walking up to them and dropping a bit in their drink it would bring out a lot more attempts. Especially if it is sold in stores. Even with restrictions alcohol is more abused by people that are 16-22 than people whom are older. It would not be a far venture to say that the same thing will occur with LSD, in fact again I will guarantee that it will happen. If this were made legal as my adversary wishes, I am using this word a lot but would almost guarantee that it would replace alcohol as the number 1 date rape drug. There is no 100 percent way to show that I am correct, but using basic logic we can easily arrive at this conclusion with a strong foundation of facts to support it. The difference in between choosing to take lsd and having it slid into your drink is either sex or rape. Even if we found out that legalizing this would increase the amount of rapes only by 1,000 or 2,000 a year, that is still a viable reason not to legalize it. Although I think it would be much higher.http://www.narconon.org...Rebuttal 2"My opponent also mentions the possibility of "social addiction" to LSD. However, one can become addicted to any activity. Some common behavioral addictions include the following"He then lists off a long line of reasons as to other things you can become addicted to. The issue is none of these are considered "drugs" and you remain in full control of your body at all times. Offering up a legal addiction to people, that will make them have hallucinations and lose control of their senses is far different than a overweight kid wanting to eat a "piece o pie". As I have also stated and also which he derailed, with it being accessible to kids in school it will surely be used at parties and become a party drug. When we look at my stance from the first rebuttal i offered, we can clearly see the repercussions of this and what will end up happening. This is a mental addiction that will tie into rape and hallucinogenics. That is a fact we can not accept. Rebuttal 3 "In my opponent's third paragraph, he contends that LSD causes indirect deaths"also"My opponent argues that LSD would cause more accidents if legalized. Once again, I will refer to alcohol and other legal drugs as an analogy."Could this happen with other drugs? It can and will, but maybe I should have worded this better than simply saying deaths and inserted accidents. Things such as rape as I have already mentioned. Even outside of rape, lets just look again at how easy it is to spike someones drink with this. It is not like alcohol and can not be detected. Pretend a kid gets a hold of this and takes it to school because of how accessible it will be, with it being sold over the counter. He wants to play a joke and spikes his teachers drink, or his girlfriends drink, or a bullies drink. We can easily see the avenues that this will open up, if it is made as easily accessible as alcohol. Where there could be deaths from this and even if they are few and far between, the amount of people that will have to unwillingly take this drug is an unacceptable cost. Rebuttal 4"I apologize to my opponent and to the audience for not being clear enough with my title. Allow me to rephrase it as "LSD has many positive long-term effects and few negative long-term effects."and"I invite my opponent to find an example of a drug that has less negative effects than LSD and an equal or greater potential for therapeutic use"I'm running out of character limits, but again we can clearly see through my previous arguments that it does offer negative effects. It all depends on how we define negative. I have shown the short term, but with it being accessible to the public when issues like rape or someone having their drink spiked, it will also lead to long term issues as well. If a woman is raped because of this drug and suffers from depression, it directly correlates to legalizing this drug. Ergo a negative effect. As i have also stated, just because it can be a viable means for therapy is not a reason for legalization. Just therapy or pain killers in itself offer the same benefits, with out bringing the fall out that I have shown legalizing this drug will. Rebuttal 4"My opponent focuses solely on my statement on taxation. Therefore, extend all other arguments."That is all I need to focus on. How easily it is to mass produce ties in directly to the amount of money you can make. He completely straw mans my argument, and does not address the fact that anything that could make money, is not always a viable reason for legalization. So this is where I can honestly say "extend all arguments", because of the red herring he offered up. In ClosingAll the reasons my opponent have offered up for legalization pale in comparison, to the negative effects that will come from LSD. LSD will increase the rate of rapes that happen, find its way into young teenagers lives at a far more prevalent rate that it already has, and even serve as easy way to spike or get people to take this unwillingly. The negative effects are obvious and far outweigh any pros this drug may offer.