[FlingWingFlyer]

After they legalize their “medicinal” pot, I wonder which drug they’ll be legalizing next. “Medicinal opium”? “Medicinal” Meth? “Medicinal Heroin”? Cocaine?

[Mariner]

Don't you think that's a little over the top?

I a far reach from pot to meth and heroin.

Equating them shows you either have an agenda or are ignorant of the facts.

[truthfreedom]

I would guess the natural stuff. So, yeah. Opium and Heroin come from the same plant. Cocaine comes from a different plant. Meth is a chemical, similar to the prescription amphetimines they give kids like Ritalin.

If they passed Prop 19 for the opium plant and the coca plant, the results would be interesting. Legal to possess opium legal in small amounts, legal to possess the coca leaf in small amounts. Legal to grow the opium plant and the coca plant in small amounts. Legal to keep the product of your grow around your house.

But don’t make the manufactured product legal, just the natural product. So, opium would be legal, but not codeine, heroin or morphine. Coca leaf would be legal but not cocaine.

Let the locality decide about the sales of coca leaf and opium.

What would happen? Wouldn’t have much immediate effect on possession. Opium is rare and coca leaf is even more rare.

Minimal effect on the supply of coke and heroin. Coca plants don’t grow well outside of South America. It takes
a lot of coca plants to make cocaine. It takes a lot of opium plants to make heroin. And a lot of advanced knowledge. People would not be using their grow plots for plants designed to be converted into harder drugs.

There would be an interesting treatment of addiction here - “medical” opium or “medical” coca. Instead of methodone, give heroin addicts opium, or just let them grow it. Coke addicts could be given coca leaves.

On the negative side, there is the possibility that legalizing these physically addictive substances could lead to addiction, and a graduating up to the more potent form. If it ever is considered, that is certainly a real factor.

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[fr_freak]

After they legalize their “medicinal” pot, I wonder which drug they’ll be legalizing next. “Medicinal opium”? “Medicinal” Meth? “Medicinal Heroin”? Cocaine?

Medical marijuana is already legal in CA. This new proposition is to decriminalize ALL marijuana usage/possession (with a cap on the amount one can possess at one time).

[Ronin]

Cocaine has always been legal for medicinal use.

[IDFbunny]

I think anabolic steroids will be next. Classifying them schedule III was went overboard just because of a couple of stupid, unsupervised teens.