Which drugs do you think should be legal for personal use?

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One last question though.   What role would the FDA play when and if drugs are legalised?

I think you're confusing the FDA with the DEA.

Nope I'm talking about the Food and Drug administration.

That's a much more interesting thought than the DEA's role, which would transition to something obvious as was stated assuming there was a blanket change towards legality towards both use AND production (both commercially and personally). The FDA's role would probably be relegated to overseeing that a certain company's product was genuine, and setting standards for packaging and warnings in much the same way as is done with tobacco and alcohol.

What intriuges me more is a state in which actual large-scale commercial development and sale of many drugs (especially naturally occuring ones like marijuana, mushrooms, salvia, DMT) is legal and fully regulated while the current illicit production and sale remains illegal. I suppose the difference would lie mainly in having some sort of permit to produce and distribute a substance, pay income taxes on it, etc etc.

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I'm giving ground and actually looking at it from your view point and lets say we make them legal.

Wow, thanks.

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By this point I'm not even sure this was meant to be a serious reply. You began by saying you'd explain how legalised drugs would be managed and then immediately derail that train of thought into what's happening on the streets. For one thing, the one with the worries is not immediatly the poor old woman, it's the addict. The addicts are the most direct victims of the current system and I shouldn't have to explain why. Everyone else has a stake in his recovery as well.

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While I have no doubt that this sort of thing occurs, it's a result of current drug regulation and enforcement policies.

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Really? Because, to me, classifying the addicts themselves as something besides criminals might do the whole community better. And if they are able to get what they are addicted to safely and cheaper they wouldn't have nearly as negative of an impact to those around them. In fact, opening the doors to legalisation may help bring these kinds of things off of the streets and may bankrupt the people and dark organisations who are funded through it.

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In the same fashion anything else of its kind is.

I imagine drugs would be evaluated on several scales for their dangers to health and that regulations would be enacted accordingly. I don't even necessarily agree that all drugs should be legalised. But the current system is all kinds of awful for the users, the taxpayers, and the communities themselves.