I have some background in the drugs space (in fact you’ll see my face in the Channel 4 documentary about drug decriminalisation that was made about 7 years ago!)
The question I’ve never seen answered is this:
Alcohol is legal, and it gets used a lot. If other drugs were legal, might they also get used more, meaning that if even if the quality of the drugs were better and the support available were better, the number of people addicted may go up. If we believe that addiction is really bad (I do!) this is a worry.
(Sorry if you’ve answered this, I haven’t read everything fully)
We talk about this a bit in the health section of part 2, mentioning Portugal’s decriminalisation and the use of psychedelics to treat addiction. Do we answer your questions there? if not, could I ask you to raise (further) concerns in that thread itself, just to centralise discussion for anyone else who reads this later.
I have some background in the drugs space (in fact you’ll see my face in the Channel 4 documentary about drug decriminalisation that was made about 7 years ago!)
The question I’ve never seen answered is this:
Alcohol is legal, and it gets used a lot. If other drugs were legal, might they also get used more, meaning that if even if the quality of the drugs were better and the support available were better, the number of people addicted may go up. If we believe that addiction is really bad (I do!) this is a worry. (Sorry if you’ve answered this, I haven’t read everything fully)
Hello Sanjay,
We talk about this a bit in the health section of part 2, mentioning Portugal’s decriminalisation and the use of psychedelics to treat addiction. Do we answer your questions there? if not, could I ask you to raise (further) concerns in that thread itself, just to centralise discussion for anyone else who reads this later.