ageingpartyfiend
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The amount of parents who've lost their kids to drugs and now advocate legalisation / decrim / HR etc really surprises many people for some reason.Similar case happened with two teenage brothers who snuck out to a hotel and bought what turned out to be unusually potent MDMA. The parents said that 'they wanted to be intoxicated ; they did not want to DIE.' And are now arguing for legalization which is the best 'youth protection' you could get. Sure kids want to experiment, but under a legal model you a) wouldn't have anyone licensed selling to under-18s, and b) if said under-18s scrounged their stuff from older friends, at least the product would be of a known standard dosage and free of exacerbating contaminants.
We ofc are not surprised at all. Pity it seems to have to take loved one's dying for most people to step outside of the mindwash / accepted paradigm though, but it's usually similar in many scenarios not just drugs I guess