Just in case anyone has forgotten, that is the position of Drug WarRant — legalize and regulate all drugs. Sometimes we end up talking a lot about marijuana, because it’s in the news so much now, but it’s good to remember that the end goal is legalization and regulation. Period.
And that’s the point in an excellent article at LadyBud (back in April that I missed at the time) by Angela Bacca: It’s Time To Legalize All Drugs, Not Just Marijuana
However, for all the reasons marijuana should be legal, almost all of themapply to every illicit substance classified and prohibited under the Controlled Substances Act, all drugs should be legal, all of them. [...]The same arguments used against marijuana prohibitionapply to all drugs because the same legislators, government bureaus, private industries andlaw enforcement organizations profit off them.Prohibition is the deadliest drug of them all. Yes, Prohibition is a drug. So many layers of society and industry shoot up Drug War cash like smack, they have literally become addicted to the money enforcing arbitrary drug laws generates. Their addiction has incentivized them to turn every American who gets their drugs off the street instead of in a pharmacy as ATMs. [...]In a legal market, more people would survivedrug abuse . If all drugs, like food tested by the FDA or tap water monitored for cleanliness and safety, were subject to some sort of oversight, even the incompetent governmental kind, street drugs would be cleaner. Consumers would have legal recourse, like withpharmaceutical companies , to sue producers for selling faulty products. In a legal market, we have the ability to regulate drugs the way we do alcohol, tobacco and in some states, marijuana. With straightforwardeducation, not D.A.R.E., and a legal market we could take the counterculture edge off of drug use and prevent some abusers from ever using. [...]It’s time to push this conversation, the Drug War is not just a war on some people, it’s a war on all people.
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