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Monday, September 18, 2006

Question of the day #64: Legalize it!

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Are there any drugs that are currently illegal that you think should be made legal or vice-versa?

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3 Comments:

At 9/19/2006 3:49 AM, Blogger Joe Otten declaimed...

Chardonnay should be made illegal. That is nasty stuff.

 
At 9/19/2006 5:19 AM, Blogger Zachary Moore declaimed...

I'm in agreement with Olly, however despite the fact that no moral basis can be made for banning any substance, a sufficient practical argument can be made for strongly discouraging certain substances.

When speaking pharmacologically, the crucial issue is dosage. Many recreational drugs in use today are processed to significantly increase the effective dosage (several orders of magnitude) above what would be experienced if taken in their unprocessed state.

Unfortunately, the processing of certain drugs is an economic necessity based on their legality- it's simply cheaper to transport and market higher concentrated product. As a hypothetical, imagine if caffeine was made illegal, but continued to be used recreationally. Regular coffeeshops would give way to speakeasy espresso bars, which would eventually give way to processed and powdered caffeine. Administration of caffeine in this way runs the same risk as purified cocaine on one's health.

I think that a good rule of thumb is to consider the administration of a drug in its naturally-occurring state to be the preferred route of delivery. Cannabis buds, coca leaves, mushrooms, even opium wax are much more tolerable to the average physiology than those drugs which are cooked up by economic necessity in a prohibitive legal atmosphere.

 
At 9/19/2006 2:37 PM, Blogger BlackSun declaimed...

All of them.

 

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