If the war on illegal drugs were ever called off, what would you do to curb the hazards of home drug making?

Question

Would you ban the home production of such drugs as meth and have large pharmecutical companies like Pfizer create meth in sterile labs to be sold over the counter at local convenience stores? Would it prevent home property values from declining having avoided environmental and health hazards from dangerous mixtures of gases and chemicals?

Answer 1

The idea goes that the free market would develop safer means of delivering those drugs, in safer doses and safer forms.

It means that, yes, a drug company or maybe even RJ Reynolds would do that. In that case, it would not be economically vialble for people to make their own drugs because it would be cheaper just to get them at the store.

Answer 2

There is no more a war on drug than there is a war to stop illegal immigration. Our government doesn't want the flow to stop of either one. The gov profits from the narcotic sales and our economy profits from the inexpensiive labor illegals bring.

I think the gov should regulate the drugs and let Pfizer and Merrick make all the good stuff pure and untainted. Again, it would have to be cheap or everyone would go back to trying to make it themselves to sell it cheaper.

Answer 3

if the war were called of, meth would still be illegal and combatted even more stringently than it is now. Because it's production is a hazard to all. Coke is as good and safer to make.

Answer 4

are you allowed to make Prozac at home?

I don't know what they would do. I think growing marijuana should be allowed, but other than that, home manufacture of drugs should be subject, depending on the particular drug, to similar licensing as alcohol or medications.

Although personally I don't think most drugs should be legal, at least in the sense of their sale for recreational use, except marijuana... the others should be illegal to sell, and users should be subject to forced rehab depending on the severity of their case.