| Replying here since I can't reply downthread: > First, you're assuming that legalizing heroin would result in a high quality pure product. Considering that heroin addicts are desparate for heroin, it's pretty likely that they would go to cheaper black market sources with the same quality problems we have today. I don't feel like this is a genuine argument on your part. If it was available in an affordable, high-quality manner, very few people would continue to use dirty, cut and illegal versions. I think legalizing it is a good start, but an ideal scenario are heroin treatment clinics like we see in Switzerland or Denmark. They are 100% free and obviously use pure drugs. > Second, legalizing heroin would dramatically normalize it, very likely resulting in many more people becoming addicted to it. Even if the danger of the drug decreased, it would almost certainly be offset by the large increase in new addicts. I don't think that everyone would start using heroin after it was legalized. Most people are still extremely afraid of it due to e.g. media characterisations. Even so, as I've already postulated, I don't think there's any inherent danger in using it, so it's really a moot point to be honest. |