People that believe psycotropic drugs should be legalized should spend a night in LAs skid row.
By morning, they'll be very much in favor of keeping that shit as controlled as possible.
By morning, they'll be very much in favor of keeping that shit as controlled as possible.
Highly recommend the book Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari if you’re interested in reading a persuasive version of this viewpoint.
This isn't even remotely true. There are plenty of homeless people in Skid Row that are there even though their drug of choice is alcohol, available cheap from the nearest liquor store, grocery, etc.
I've read Chasing the Scream and it's not a useful viewpoint on this subject.
And that was just after volunteering for a week. A co-worker worked with AmeriCorps for a year in Skid Row and during that time, one of the social workers she worked with lost their leg to gangrene after getting an infection on Skid Row from a stray needle. A coworker of hers was beaten into a coma by a drug addict they were trying to help.
Psychelic compounds are just as bad to someone whose brain has been eaten away from psychotropic drugs or narcotics, and are known to trigger schizophrenia-family of disorders in individuals with latent susceptibility. Marijuana, for example, is only mildly psychotropic but triggers schizophrenic episodes in individuals with schizophrenia...