Legalising it, to the point of taxing it, would basically be a money grab.
‘Decriminalising’ so-called is what most prossies say they want and seems the most reasonable. Basically means it would no longer be an offence, but it’s such a vague term. You want laws to stop coercion, forced trafficking, underage, or causing a nuisance. But we don’t want the laws themselves abused.
Taxation (as in Melbourne and some other places) simply puts prices up.
Similarly weed has been ‘legalised’ in Canada, or parts of Canada, but the licensed distributors have a serious job competing on price with unlicensed ones apparently. Pointless?
Drugs genuinely associated with serious crime are drugs of addiction, injectables. One way to harness those would be to make them registered so users could be tracked. At the moment there’s a double standard. Johnny Depp snorts coke, like hundreds of other celebrities, and is savvy enough to avoid permanent addiction. Not hard. Why shouldn’t he? But Bigsby living in a Trashland Estate somewhere just snorts it till he runs out or else injects the stuff, brings problems.
