—— Really? Google “Molly” and say, Madonna, Hollywood, concert, rap and see what you get.
In the minds of our kids drugs are already legitimate, legal or not. -——
Yes,these drugs are harmful. Perhaps if they were regulated, fewer deaths would result.
Keep in mind that spray paint and turpentine can be obtained by adults, and even children. Yet how many people regularly “huff” paint?
Drugs were criminalized in the affluent town that I grew up in, but the best place to obtain drugs was in school.
I skimmed the statements of the popes. They generally decry the use of illegal drugs and the associated drug war violence, but I didn’t see a public policy prescription. I’ll have to go back and re-read their statements.
Do you have data supporting the hypothesis that “regulation” would result in lesser drug deaths, or addiction, or dependence, or crime, or physiological damage? Or perhaps a data-based projection or scenario supporting that hypothesis?
+JMJ,
~Theo