I believe the current system is an abject failure that has seriously curtailed civil liberties, costs an endless fortune of taxpayer money, completely fails to help people who do have serious addiction problems and ruins lives, mostly of more vulnerable people, with fines and criminal records and jail time. It also force people to buy impure drugs, directly resulting in many deaths and accidental overdoses, including a huge part of the fentanyl death toll.
I think most of the popular drugs should be legalized with various levels of access and greater restrictions for the drugs we known are most prone to serious abuse, such as opioids and speed (along with nicotine and alcohol). There's simply no reason a grown adult shouldn't be able to smoke a joint or eat some mushrooms or do some lines of coke in their own home - and buy them safely and legally without undue fear of impurities.
> I think most of the popular drugs should be legalized
Under what circumstances do you think fentanyl could be legalized?
Opioids are already legal to some degree, it's just over-prescribing them had a massive backlash and shifting to a completely opposite direction (not that addiction was ever technically a valid reason to get a prescription).
> There's simply no reason a grown adult shouldn't be able to smoke a joint
Yes, but you still agree we have to draw a line at some point. How do we handle substances that end up being on the other side of it? Do we just ignore them and their distribution not to "curtail civil liberties"?
> who do have serious addiction problems and ruins lives, mostly of more vulnerable people, with fines and criminal records and jail time
That's awful and should not happen. But is it still that widespread these days? Many(most?) places just seem to ignore addicts and abandon them without providing any real support.
> along with nicotine and alcohol
What's wrong with nicotine? It's mostly harmless (even if quite addictive) in it's pure form...
Anyway if you actually consider even alcohol to be on the other side of that line, I'm not quite sure what you're proposing? If weed and mushrooms are legalized we're still left with 95%+ of all drugs related problems we had before that.
I think most of the popular drugs should be legalized with various levels of access and greater restrictions for the drugs we known are most prone to serious abuse, such as opioids and speed (along with nicotine and alcohol). There's simply no reason a grown adult shouldn't be able to smoke a joint or eat some mushrooms or do some lines of coke in their own home - and buy them safely and legally without undue fear of impurities.