Originally Posted by Paul

With a lot of the hard drugs, what makes them so dangerous are the contaminants that the drugs are mixed with to create bigger quantities. There was a documentary on channel 4 about Heroin many years ago and the scientist was explaining how if all drugs where legalised then addicts could get pure quantities in smaller forms but most importantly because of this it would be of little harm to their health and they'd be able to maintain a normal lifestyle, and be slowly weened off the drugs over an extended period of time while still being a decent functioning member of society.

That's the real problem about prohibition, in the UK the most widely used drug is cannabis and it is truly terrifying the stuff that dealers put in it to make it weigh more. Brick powder, Fiberglass, when that shit gets into someones lungs it has the potential to burn holes in the lung tissue. There are cases now of heavy cannabis users in their early 20s who have lungs worse than people who have smoked heavily for 30+ years

But that's prohibition for you