TBH almost all the problems I’ve seen with drugs have been permanent psychological changes in people from relatively minor use, not death – that was a one-off. I’m not convinced education works, or that people who are young enough to experiment are capable of taking that education and using it to make a rational decision. While looking at the current situation of alcohol age limits – what you find is teens thinking its “cool” to go out and get smashed because a massive number of the general public do too. Convert that to drug world – some kids try light drugs, very few try hard drugs. Legalise the lot and see how soon that changes, and how soon the kids drunk on the corner become dead kids on the corner. And considering the known psychological problems linked to drug use, see the ticking timebomb coming in the future…
There is absolutly no evidnce that taking one drug makes you more likely to try another. Drugs of all kinds are easily available. Infact the evidence actually points the other way – if “soft” drugs are easily available use of “hard” drugs oes down
There is no real concensus about the links between mental illness and drug use.
There are 3 possible options – co incidence – these people would have developed mental illness anyway, Trigger – they were likely to have the mental illness anyway and the drug triggered it or Causes. I personally believe “trigger” is the truth
Illegal drugs of one sort or another are taken by millions of people in the UK every week. Prohibition has failed
