Why are alcohol and tobacco ok but not other drugs ?

[ronki23]

1. There is no lethal dose known.
2. It's practically not addictive. (Technically it is and it is habit forming.)
3. It has medicinal uses.

Also, the way it got banned in the first place was a farce.

It wasn't just one culture that banned it though: a lot of Western countries and a lot of Muslim countries banned it. Two different culture. If I'm not mistaken it's illegal in China too

 

[ronki23]

Meth is the worst of those, imo. You can safely use heroin and coke but meth is a neurotoxin and causes brain damage.

Ecstasy ?

Speed ?

LSD?

Magic Mushrooms ?

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

Ecstasy ?

Speed ?

LSD?

Magic Mushrooms ?

You want me to tell you about each specifically???

Ecstasy is a party drug that is best used sparingly as it can harm you if you use it too much. It raises your body temperature and can cause you to overheat and develop hyperthermia. The crash from it can make you suicidal, as well. That is usually enough to keep people from using it too often, on its own.

I don't know anything about speed, really.

LSD and shrooms are pretty harmless. The only real risk is of a psychotic break.

 

[Heyo]

It wasn't just one culture that banned it though: a lot of Western countries and a lot of Muslim countries banned it. Two different culture. If I'm not mistaken it's illegal in China too

It was internationally banned only after a conference. The current binding contract between countries is the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs - Wikipedia. This conference is the (widely unknown) reason countries don't legalize marijuana.

 

[Valjean]

Where does the distinction end between a safe and unsafe drug ? I don't know what's worse: Heroin, Cocaine or Meth but Morphine is legal and Cocaine is widely used despite being illegal.

Why should Marijuana be legalised and not these other drugs ?

Stimulants like amphetamine and cocaine can be dangerous.

 

[Valjean]

Ecstasy ?

Speed ?

LSD?

Magic Mushrooms ?

Speed is amphetamine. Ecstasy is also an amphetamine -- 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine -- but with broader psychoactive effects than a base amphetamine.

Magic mushrooms can be anything. Most commonly they're one of several species of the Psilocybe genus, but they could be any psychoactive mushroom. They're problematic because: 1. Black market "magic mushrooms" could be anything, and 2. as a raw botanical dosage control is not possible.
Psylocybin is not a metabolically active molecule like salt or insulin, that must be kept at a specific concentration within the organism. It's a pesticide, to deter predators, and concentrations can vary from 'shroom to 'shroom. One may have very little, while another picked a few meters away can be loaded with it.

LSD is LSD, a specific molecule -- though what you'll get on the black market might be something else, or adulterated, but generally, being cheap and powerful of itself, it's usually what it's advertised to be. It's powerfully hallucinogenic, but doesn't seem to have harmful metabolic effects.