Legalize Recreational Substances

Out of curiosity I'd like to ask what you yourself would consider "popular recreational substances" other than marijuana.
What substances do you think should be legalized?

Thanks in advance.

Trust me in that I'm not Saint Peter here by any stretch. But having said that I have never touched a drug in my life, nor have I even smoked a cigarette once......so you know where my mind will favor on the issue.

ALL OF THEM! Why shouldn't they be legal? The worst drugs are already legal. Treat addicts/abusers and educate children with the tax revenue generated.

People with addiction problems are going to ingest and abuse whatever substance they can.

And people wanting to experiment or weekend users will be much safer getting their substance from a pharmacy or similar store than from a dealer who couldn't care less about the safety or purity of the product, or who may just rob them and take their money and hurt or kill them if they resist, especially with the ridiculous prevalence of firearms in the U.S.

Shouldn't fentanyl users at least KNOW how much of the substance to take without overdosing? That's what packaging and medical dispensaries can do to reduce the OD problem.

Back in the late 60's I recall quite clearly when unethical dealers would sell any white powder and call it "angel dust". Often it was simply rat poison. Trusting buyers were overdosing and dying left and right. While I knew not to ever use such a substance, it quickly became apparent that TOO MANY (if not most) PEOPLE ARE GULLIBLE and uninquisitive, barely aware of their surroundings. And many of those folks are the victims of their own lack of self-awareness. They're the ones getting addicted to and dying from whatever they can find to ingest that numbs them and slows down their already dull thinking process. Many are simply alcoholics, and the alcohol culture is so widely accepted that bars exist within practically every block of every city and town across the nation. I've seen pot and psychedelics used to ween alcoholics from their addiction, helping them become better more functional human beings. I'd rather see potheads grooving than belligerent alkies shouting, fighting and crashing their vehicles into other people.

Most people who ingest stupidly banned substances are neither addicts nor abusers. Simply typical weekend partiers.

So, you "think" everything being "legal" somehow stops people from hurting themselves and others?

Talk about gullible!

Nope. It removes the main source of income for the cartels, levels the playing field, and allows people to get high more safely on the substance of their preference, just like you can have your whiskey or stogie of your preferred brand and expect a quality product.

What makes your preference for whiskey any different than someone else's preference for cocaine or psilocybin or ecstasy?

Talk about blind to one's own hypocrisy.

Cannabis Black Market Thrives Despite Legalization
https://alcoholstudies.rutgers.edu/cannabis-black-market-thrives-despite-legalization/

Marijuana’s black market is undercutting legal businesses
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/23/marijuana-black-market-undercuts-legal-business.html

The black market strangled California's legal weed industry. Now it's coming for New York.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/13/california-black-market-weed-new-york-00066470

If you meant to make a point, you didn't. Moonshine is still available, too, just like we have our homemade artesian mezcal. I don't see moonshiners or pot growers taking over regions of the country and forming violent organized gangs. Currently fentanyl is killing tens of thousands in the States right now because they're accidentally overdosing themselves since the stuff comes with no instructions. I'd like to see people able to take their substance of preference safely. When the regulators learn not to overregulate then they won't have all the black-market competition.