Well that's what we were really discussing. Developing sound reasoning which could capture more votes.
The reasoning's more than there, it's about spreading what's already there, not dressing it up IMO. But if you wanna go that route, the obvious strategy is medical mmj / recreational permissions for mj, then after ppl seeing how benign it was, they'll be more rational about others like, say, mushrooms/mdma**. I'd expect a much softer line towards maintenance products for opiate users, although I'm not sure I'd ever expect to see, for example, crack available freely.
(as an aside to that, I think that legalization of the better drugs - cannabis, mdma, etc - would be an incredible disincentive to ppl using shitty narcotics like heroin/crack, for 2 reasons:
1 - most ppl will be able to properly enjoy all the time they'd like to spend intoxicated on proper, good stuff, leaving little reason to use 'what's available' when their drug of choice cannot be found, and
2 - the true effects of the 'better' drugs, as compared to the harder ones, would become more widely understood, significantly chipping away at the old chestnut of "well, pot and acid were fine, i'll give percocet a try"
/didn't I unsubscribe from this one? lol
[edit: **I'd like to add that, w/ cannabis being recreationally available in some areas now, and w/ MAPS's work giving some hope of *some* stronger, but non-addicting / relatively safe compounds a chance in legit medicine perhaps being on the not-too-distant horizon, this really could be a fantastic decade of change in terms of the culture dropping the unreasonable hysteria surrounding some of these drugs. It's very clear the intoxication of the illegal ones is not why ppl are scared, this is a culture that loves getting wasted every weekend and is fully accepting of that as one's choice; the fear of the other drugs is just institutional/propagandized/whatever, so it doesn't just benefit those who wanted to use and were demonized, it benefits those who never did, and never will, care to use them, because they'll shed some ridiculous precepts they'd held most of their lives]