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Lord Nikon · 18-03-2010, 07:21

Does banning any drug REALLY make a difference to it's use?
Cannabis - illegal, roaring underground trade, no quality control, gets cut with all sorts of stuff
Heroin - see above
Crack - see above
Crystal meth - see above.

repeat until list of prohibited drugs is exhausted.

Quite frankly all that banning a drug seems to do is help organised crime, since they become the main supplier and therefore the ones profiting from it.
The only way to remove a banned substance from circulation is to remove the demand, and we don't have a way of doing that yet.

18-03-2010, 07:21	#10
Lord Nikon Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: NW UK Posts: 3,546	re: Mephedrone & "legal highs" Does banning any drug REALLY make a difference to it's use? Cannabis - illegal, roaring underground trade, no quality control, gets cut with all sorts of stuff Heroin - see above Crack - see above Crystal meth - see above. repeat until list of prohibited drugs is exhausted. Quite frankly all that banning a drug seems to do is help organised crime, since they become the main supplier and therefore the ones profiting from it. The only way to remove a banned substance from circulation is to remove the demand, and we don't have a way of doing that yet.