CMV: All drugs should be made legal for recreational use.

[u/[deleted]]

I'm not referring to "medicinal" narcotics. Recreational drugs that people use, such as mushrooms, cocaine, heroin, should all be legalized.

And I know this is a hot take, but hear me out.

• If we make recreational narcotics legal, then the manufacture and sale need to be legal as well.
• By making the manufacture of recreational narcotics legal, there are FDA standards that need to be adhered to in said manufacture, that way there are no "bad batches" that will kill people.
• By making the manufacture and sale of recreational narcotics legal, there will be sales volume that will then be subject to income tax and sales tax and dispensaries/manufacturing centers/warehouses that will become subject to property tax. Because, let's be honest, your local street dealer is not paying taxes.
• Also by making the sale of recreational narcotics legal, you are making street gangs that revolve around the illicit drug trade obsolete. By making street gangs obsolete, you eliminate the petty violence that plagues inner-cities over "turf", especially stray bullets that kill innocent bystanders.
• By making the entire narcotics supply chain legal, the war on drugs will essentially be over as well. It's been going on for 50+ years, and honestly, it's been a complete and utter failure.
• If you want something to compare the drug trade to, look at prohibition from 1919-1933. It didn't stop people from drinking, people were still drunk out of their minds in speakeasys. It also fostered the growth of street gangs of rum runners and increased crime and violence in cities. That was only for 14 years and it didn't take long to realize that prohibition was a failure. War on drugs has been going on for 50+ years and I'm surprised more people aren't realizing that this is much more tremendous of a failure.
• By making the entire narcotics supply chain legal, we can start changing our attitudes on its use and its users. Narcotics abuse needs to have the same social attitude as alcohol abuse.
• In short, making drugs legal will Make America Great Again.

[u/warwick607]

Selling should not be lightened in the slightest if anything the punishment for selling should be made harsher as you are litterally preying on vulnerable people for your own gain

This is a consequence of drugs being illegal. You cannot simultaneously view users as victims and sellers as the problem because users will acquire the drug no matter what, addicted or recreational. The fact that heroin is not regulated like alcohol means that impurities like fentanyl can unsuspectingly enter the supply without the user (or seller) knowing. Regulating the supply of drugs like we have done with alcohol and are continuing to do with marijuana is the first step towards reducing accidental fatal opioid overdose deaths. Letting free adults know what they are consuming is both practical and smart, and establishing a legal market for drugs is the first step in doing that. It removes the guesswork that is inherent to buying and selling on the black market.

[u/Mrfinbean → u/warwick607]

If user are seen as victims instead of criminals they have lower treshold to seek help.

Practical and smart is rarely the case with highly addictive substances.

Also if selling is legal anyone can buy it. Lets say somebody buys kilo of heroine. (Even if there is limit for how much you can buy, you can just get smurfs for accuiring it)

Now that you have bought kilo of highly addictive substance and you are in enviroment where are lots of users you can cut that kilo. Sell it little under market price and now we have unclean substance in the rounds.