Warl0k3 , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Fair enough! My ‘war’ point was more about enforcement of the prescription-only status and how we’ve seen that restricting recreational drugs via state violence just doesn’t work. But pleasantly, we’re finding that things like safe injection sites and injection instruction work really well. It’s not quite doctor overseen administration but with purity testing and informed dosing, it’s damn close!

Restricting drugs on their anesthetic or toxic properties is pretty pointless, though a good idea on the surface. A quick browse through my garage will net you dozens of odorless chemicals in various degrees of lethality (er… I admit my garage may be a bit of an outlier here) and off the top of my head I can think of five different weeds in my yard that can be easily reduced to what most would call a ‘date rape’ drug (and one that can be refined down to a weapon of mass destruction).

The sad truth is that restricting access won’t deter anyone. Rape has been a constant throughout human history, long before we had anesthetics, and it will be a disgusting staple of society long into the future. We don’t need drugs to rape people, we just need a big wooden club and societal acceptance. The harm we do to recreational users by demonizing drug use like this far outweighs the potential benefits of strictly restricting their use, even in the hypothetical world where prescription laws aren’t casually circumvented like they are today.

I do understand where you’re coming from though. IMO, the best solution I’ve heard is a registry for ‘dangerous’ recreational drugs that all dispensaries are required to use. Obviously there’s some flaws with that, but that + marker DNA to trace batches would go a very long way to preventing casual roofie-ing. Though the most effective thing in preventing drug-aided assault has been, predictably, education.