If i had my way, I'd begin government sponsored trials and studies into each one and what exactly their effects are on people, and to see if those ill effects can be stamped out or made less prominent so that the drug could be sold in a 'safe' manner (albeit heavily taxed). I just think its especially idiotic that medical trials aren't conducted so we don't have an inside out knowledge on these substances.
I also think that the current attitude toward drugs just isn't working. The whole illegalisation of them only forces the trade underground and into the hands of criminals. Being sold by such shady individuals leaves them in a dangerously unregulated state. I'd much rather the government sell them with a standard set of chemicals in each one than the plethora of varieties that are out there now. It'd be far more safe.
Plus, government control of currently-illegal substances could bring in valuable tax revenue. Implementing those sort of policies, and in general trying to be a lot more progressive in our attitudes toward drugs would probably lead to a lot of the ill effects they cause become far less pronounced. The whole demonisation of them doesn't work at the moment, and that so painfully obvious I just don't understand why everyone hasn't already realised it.
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