Totally agree. The WOD has become a worse danger than the narcotics themselves. The criminalization of MJ led to synthetic K2, then K3.
Criminalization of cocaine and meth led to usage of bath salts and now we see cannibalization while under the influence of such.
Legalize it all, give it out free at clinics and let adults make adult decisions with adult consequences.
Legalize, eventually, maybe sooner, decriminalize, easier to accept, but "give it out free at clinics"?
The "War on Drugs" is a war on individual liberty via making it a "War" justifies the creation of a police state, which then mandates its use to justify spending the money for it, which starts that vicious circle turning and turning.
This legislated "cure" is far worse than the "disease" and most certainly isn't the cure, just a cause for greater/worse unintended consequences. At least, I think they're unintended.
This progressive mental illness is killing us. We need to get our thinking back to our philosophical and ideological sources...
"Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government."
~Thomas Jefferson Opinion on Residence Bill, 1790