I think I would label your approach “we’ll treat you like an adult unless and until you prove otherwise”. Administrate it like alcohol- buy it, consume it, it’s your business. Show up in public all sloppy drunk/high/stoned and act like a jerk nope, sorry can’t do that. Try to buy more of said alcohol/pot/cocaine while clearly drunk/high/strung out, nope sorry-no more for you(for now). Hurt or kill others while drunk/high/stoned, go to jail- do not collect $200.
That would effectively make it about the persons responsibiity and behavior towards others while consuming said substances and not about the substance per se. Perhaps that’s the way it should be. Just thinking it through.
CC
“That would effectively make it about the persons responsibiity and behavior towards others while consuming said substances and not about the substance per se. Perhaps that’s the way it should be. Just thinking it through”
Precisely, CC.
Controlling sale and possession has proven a failure. As with alcohol in the past. Punishing behavior and abuse is more effective and realistic in my mind. It’t not about whether the substance or act is truly evil or not but rather about what the practical levels of realistic control are.
Keeping people from having substances they want? Not. Going. To. Happen. Try to control the conduct in which it is used and consumed? More practical and realistic to me.