Comment by hotpotamus
3 years ago
I mean, fentanyl? Obviously it's a whole subject that could be unrolled/debated, but I don't have any interest in doing that today. Really, I thought I'd just point out one interesting and often unknown aspects of US/State law (assuming this is mostly a US-based forum; I know you said universal human right) - taking drugs isn't a crime anywhere that I'm aware of. Possession of them certainly is, but just having taken them is not.
Yeah.
It should be legal too. I'm not defending the use of it in any way, this is not about drugs but a more fundamental problem: governments deciding what you can and cannot put into your own body.
They should inform people about potential dangers and effects of substances, and try to prevent the underlying reasons for people to, say, do heroin or fentanyl.
But if someone wants to do it anyway, making it illegal just makes things worse as people will be stigmatized socially where they should be welcome/accepted the most, and they'll obtain the substance illegally and dangerously (who-knows-what-it's-laced-with and exact actual dosage) anyway.
So just inform and support the people but make it legal and relatively safer to consume for harm reduction.
But if someone wants to OD and kill themselves, I mean, it's sad but it's their own body and their own life.
It’s not about any one person in particular. It’s about whole communities descending into hell for what could be multiple generations.
I know that in theory we all should be free and take whatever we want, but I know that in practice this doesn’t end well.
There are good reasons to control consumption of some classes of drugs that don’t have anything to do with religion and/or fake sense of morality. Some things just mess us up too hard and especially some people who are susceptible to it for various reasons.
If buying, selling, and possessing are all illegal, it's illegal for all practical purposes.
I suppose that's the goal, but it's one of the interesting aspects of US law to me that taking drugs/being high on them is not a crime.