Problem with not 'handling' (or controlling them in legal way) is that it drives up demand. This is arguable, but I think those who favor legalization (like me) see it as clearly driving demand. And it is not just supposition on my part when one goes ahead and tries one of these drugs, after being exposed to 'scared straight' tactics, and realizes - essentially they lied about this. I'm not going to die or be in vegetable state for rest of my life, from one use. Perhaps others have gone that route, yet not only me, but 98% of my peers seem to handle this as well, if not better, than alcohol. So, the logic than becomes:
a) If they lied to me about this drug, then perhaps the other drugs that are around are also being met with lies. My buddy Mike swears that hard drug (that shall remain nameless) is the bomb diggity. Up til this point in my young life, I've refrained from doing that, based on gut instinct and scared tactics 'they' used to tell me 'truth' about it. But since they lied about this this drug I've tried, perhaps they are lying about all others.
b) (later) Okay, I've tried 3 or 4 and now realize my drug(s) of choice. Again, they say once is all it takes, but heck I've done it 50 times and most of my peers, many of whom have good paying jobs, seem to be doing fine while partaking. So, perhaps I'll just up my dosage and buy more, save money and go from there. The more the merrier, and I'm sure I can stop at any point. Again, I've done it 50 times already and feel no compulsion to do it all the time like they said people would from just trying it once. They lied, and only thing that sucks about this situation is that dealer who has greatest stuff around is kind of a gun nut who's probably going to insist on showing me his knife collection one more time. But hey it's price you pay when going on the black market to get this stuff. Oh well.
