I never said nor implied otherwise - of course they are, as are alcohol and tobacco.
And the fact that alcohol and tobacco are legal has no bearing on whether other even more dangerous and deleterious drugs should be legal. We have no obligation to be "fair" to other drugs. Alcohol and Tobacco do quite enough damage already. Anyone wanting more drugs to add to the death toll is just evil.
Sorry, I don’t troll posters, so if you claimed as much, ok. I missed it.
Alcohol and tobacco are regulated to the point of exagerration...those aren’t my windmills.
So essentially, if I understand your argument, any and all drugs should be legalized regardless of their effects?
That these drugs should once again be permitted to be used for “medicinal purposes” or any other use, up to and including “recreational”?
See, years ago, I had a pretty brutal mountain bike crash. I had the option of choosing between an opiate based pain killer or an alternate. One was “non-habit forming”, the other was described to me as not. The wonders of modern medicine. I wonder why pharmaceutical companies would create “non-habit forming” pharmaceuticals?
The following paragraph is hypothetical question/situation even though there is currently research being done towards non-habit forming drugs.
If we return to not having options as a result of costs and the market and the only options I then have are the opiate based or none at all...what then? [Besides not crashing on my bike.]
See the last paragraph. Does the Dr’s. statement make him a nanny stater?
http://prescription-drug-abuse.com/drug-abuse-articles/non-habit-forming-painkiller-hit-the-market/