You don't promote drug legalization because you have a hard-on for a particular drug. You do it because making drugs illegal & locking people up for their possession is wrong and bad... a detriment to society that takes a serious issue--drug addiction and overdose--and compounds it tenfold. It makes the drug itself more harmful, gives control of it to violent criminals, allows it to be sold to children & ensures that more deadly variations will pop up in its place (see: heroin > fentanyl > carfentanil > isonitazene).
So you think cannabis or mushrooms are "good for a number of health ailments" and "natural" and "non-toxic"? Great. And probably true. I would agree with that assessment. Unfortunately, that has fuckall to do with why we need to legalize them. Even a drug like fentanyl, which is super potent & has the potential to cause death by respiratory depression, or PCP which causes unpredictable mania and aggression at high doses should be legal so that users:
1.) Know what drug and dose they're getting when they purchase it. (No adulteration).
2.) Can easily and legally purchase it from a trusted source rather than a shady/potentially violent drug dealer. (Safety & convenience).
3.) Don't have to worry about being sent to jail & having their lives ruined for simple possession. (No carceral state involvement).
4.) Can access harm reduction/educational information & clean paraphernalia when they purchase the drug. (No abstinence-only propaganda; reduced disease transmission).
5.) Don't have to sell their bodies, steal or do other illegal/dangerous things to obtain their drug of choice as it will be affordable. (No artificial inflation).
6.) Are carded at purchase to ensure they're of legal age. (No sales to minors).
7.) Have other safer alternatives available at the point of sale so they may opt for them instead of these less desirable ones (eg - opium instead of heroin; Adderall instead of meth; ketamine instead of PCP). (More & safer options).
8.) Don't resort to Frankenstein chemicals that are even LESS studied and more dangerous than the drugs they're meant to mimic. Users only take these substances because they're legal and/or so they can pass a drug test, not because they're preferable to their illegal counterparts. (See: Spice vs. marijuana; Hexen vs. MDMA; 25i-NBOMe vs. LSD, inhalants, etc). (Demand for experimental research chemicals will dry up once safer, more preferable options are available legally).
The bottom line is there won't be a market for carfentanil or other monstrously potent opioids if pharma-grade heroin and morphine are legally available from a trusted source. We know this because countries with softer drug laws like Portugal & Switzerland do not have these problems. Even fentanyl can be used safely when the user takes it willingly & knows the dose beforehand (but when other options are available it's not generally in the Top 3 most desirable opioids for most addicts). And nobody will be shooting up in broad daylight on street corners or stealing away to get high in public bathrooms where children might see them if there are safe injection rooms available for them to do so without fear of arrest.
While this isn't as palatable to think about as free spirits vaping DMT or New Agers rubbing Rick Simpson Oil on their cold sores, it's a vital public health issue whether you partake in hard drug use or not. (The distinction between "hard" and "soft" drugs is not based in science whatsoever, by the way). This is about personal freedom, the safety of the American public and ending the violence caused by the cartels, gangs & other criminals involved in the drug trade not just in the U.S. but in Mexico, South America and around the globe. On a local level it's about stopping the tidal wave of death caused by accidental overdoses due to an adulterated drug supply tainted with illicit fentanyl & nitazenes.
And don't think for a second you're safe just because you don't use opiates. Illicit fentanyl has turned up in everything from MDMA and cocaine to fake Xanax bars, ketamine, Adderall, meth & even Tylenol. Yes, (fake) Tylenol. There's no limit to the shapes fentanyl powder can be pressed into when not sold in its powder form. People who've never touched heroin or taken a Percocet are dying from a single Ecstasy tablet or line of coke to the tune of 100,000+ overdose deaths in 2021 alone--an all-time record. And that was before the rise of the nitazene family which is 20x more potent than fentanyl on average.
The odds are not in your favor. Either you or someone you love very much is headed for the grave if something drastic doesn't change, and fast.
If that's not reason enough to support the legalization of ALL drugs, you need to check your moral compass because it's broken. While legalization also is great because it allows us to study the medicinal benefits of various drugs like psychedelics & MDMA, we're so deep in death & destruction from prohibition we can't even focus on that. Now is the time for the drug-using public to band together like never before and demand our voices be heard. Non-drug users too. Drug snobs will be called out as the petty, narrow-minded turds they are. There's no time for the "I got mine, fuck you" mindset. Not when we're dying in unprecedented numbers with no end in sight.
Prohibition didn't work with alcohol and it's not working with other drugs. In fact, the parallels are uncanny: A poisoned supply controlled by violent criminals leading to unnecessary death. Whether your drug of choice is cannabis or crack, we need you to stand against the war on non-violent drug-using Americans. Our lives literally depend on it.
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| Only criminals support & profit from the drug war. |
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