Quote:I believe heroin was used in the medical field much like dimmeral(spelling?) is used today.


I'm not advocating heroin be sold in Walmart either I'm just arguing against the authority of anyone attempting to dictate what a consenting adult does in the privacy of their own home. If you treated other narcotics the same as alcohol how would we be worse off? We'd have a smaller prison population that's for sure.

 

Yet many medical drugs are also regulated and not freely available.


You really are. You're advocating a world without regulations. That would mean heroin being sold OTC at Walmart. After all, you can go and buy alcohol at Walmart (oh, there are regulations regarding that as well, hence "carding").


Yes, we would be worse off. Drug use isn't something that is an isolated experience limited to effecting the individual that chooses to use. It impacts the user's lives significantly more than alcohol would and would impact the lives of almost everyone around the user regardless of whether or not they are also users. Just because you believe that your family would be able to handle it just fine, doesn't mean that making something unregulated is a good idea that is beneficial to society at all.

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