Reddit reviews Drugs in American Society

I'm going to put my "radical" hat on for a second: almost every illegal drug was used responsibly by the majority of users for a long time before it became illegal, and, additionally, was not made illegal due to genuine safety concerns. Everything from marijuana to opiates was once used legally and more safely than in the current prohibition climate. This book covers it in depth. If this is a topic that interests you I highly recommend obtaining an older edition and reading up. Lots of information is also available online. It's been argued that the very existance of prohibition encourages people to use more potent, less safe forms of their drug of choice.

We both know that alcohol, just regular plain old OTC alcohol, is the most common date rape drug. But I've been drugged with... something... and it's not an experience I want to repeat. There are so many alcohol & drug involved rapes during the first weekend back at college that the administration secretly calls it "rape weekend." So I am very concerned with what can be done to make people safer. When I first commented to you, I was thinking that making the drugs Rx only was a good call. But hey, you got me thinking! Whatever I was dosed with probably was an Rx only drug, and obviously that didn't keep me safe. What did keep me safe was the fact that I was drinking slowly and recognized the effects of the drug as it hit me. I was able to get someone to walk me home where I could sleep it off safely. I feel bad though, because I am sure I am not the only person who was drugged that night, and I am sure at least one woman didn't make it home safe. We have to change the party culture.

There are a lot of days when I think that all drug use should be decriminalized. Our current model is so very broken.