Recreational Drug Use Legalization

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45

I divided them based on addiction (besides alcohol) and death rates.

Death rates alone do not tell the story.

I would consider acid a soft drug because it is non-addicting and you can not overdose on it.

That would be an incorrect assumption.

There are obviously pretty big health risks that come with it but with proper education it can be a lot safer so people know how to avoid and take care of bad trips and avoid taking a hit a week or anything insane like that.

Your assumption is that drug users seekers are rational people who can control their urges and desires. Another false assumption.

Does anyone know of any studies of LSD that goes more in depth than Merc's article, specifically the frying of the brain as Cloud mentioned?

There are whole textbooks written on the subject. The effects of LSD drug abuse are highly documented.

For MDMA (ecstasy), I believe most of the negative effects come from impurities, which would be avoided if legalized, and besides that, the three leading causes of death with ecstasy are Hyponatremia (drinking too much water), Hyperthermia (body overheating), and overdose, all which are preventable (keep in mind this is coming from someone that has never taken it). And for addiction, I haven't seen any hard proof that it is addicting because of the real lack of pure ecstasy. This is obviously a drug that would need to be taken with extreme caution and it really is hard to tell without any definite studies.

The studies are very well documented as are the deaths and effects of long term use of MDMA. This is not a new thing here guys. You talk like this is some new fangled thing that people are just playing with on the side. And granted there may be people like that. IMHO the the health risks well out weigh any minor benifit of getting you jollies for a night of bliss.

For shrooms, it is very similar to lsd.

Correct, same negative effects.

I would still say alochol makes people do much stupider things than either shrooms or lsd.

Less stupid? An individual is certainly in much less control under the influence of shrooms or LSD, alcohol is at least something that you can graduate.

Monster, people convicted of drug charges have a choice to go the frontline to avoid jailtime so I guess they are already exploring the option.

Completely and utterly incorrect. That option went out in the 70's.