Pharmacies already have lines of drug users filling up their stores.
Mushrooms are not a soft drug, despite what your hippy ideals may think - they contain a powerful hallucinogenic substance, that is infact a type of poison. And can be attributed to many dangerous outcomes, i don't believe shops should sell them at all.
Sure, dutch weed cafe's work. I have no problem with that. The real drug market is not in soft drugs. Pharmacies, if they take on this plan - which i doubt they would - would have all sorts of, well, ex-criminals in them. The other way this model would work (and no, we don't need to adulterate substances with shit to make them 'safer'). Was that pharmacist run 'drug stores' would arise, and given the demographic of people visiting them, would most likely be some kind of booth/hole in the wall, to prevent theft.
I know theft is a major issue in the methadone/buprenorphine treatment model that some pharmacies take on. Lots of junkies like to pinch shit whilst they're in the pharmacy. And this creates that issue. A Drug Bank type idea would work in place of this, possibly operated by multiple pharmacists, all drugs then labeled as if they were a prescription - with dosing information on the label.
Also, it would be good to point out, that under this model - possessing drugs not labeled and named would be an extreme offense, in benifit of the government.
And i think, i would be quite happy with those ideas if they were put in motion. It's the only comprimise that would work with the community. And even then, i still don't believe heroin should be sold like this (im an ex heroin user) - because of its side effects, possibly meth should not be sold either.
One idea, in prevention of over-use/abuse, would be to put all substances in a pill form - but this is iffy, because it reduces those who do not abuse the drugs, to the same level as those who do. People shouldn't have to be punished for doing the right thing. Perhaps the model would include that people suspected of abuse the subject to some kind of examination - if abuse was cited, they would only be allowed the tablet variations.
There is a whole fucking book i could write that would outline laws that would create guidelines for safe drug dispense and use.
I'll sum it all up like this;
*Drugs are dispensed by a registered and qualified pharmacist
*All participants in the program are to be registered, and hold a membership card. This would incite a reasonable fee, to ensure younger kids/teens can not afford to participate.
*Participants may be registered at only one pharmacy at any time, to register with another would void your registration at the other, and incur another fee for each transfer - and transfers would be only available once a week/fortnight.
*The drugs to be sold would be limited to those deemed as Party Drugs by the authorities - and i believe should be limited to (and i'd open this to discussion, but to prevent true abuse);
Tablet formula Amphetamines
MDMA
Ketamine
and possibly, GHB and some form of weak benzodiazapine or z-drug to assist in comedowns.
Add ideas to this model, but i don't believe drugs in formulas where they can be smoked/injected would work for the ideal that this was to benifit.
Oh sorry for hurling insults, it's just what i do. Read my posts in other threads... it's the only way i can focus on writing something intelligent
