Yes but it’s one of very few that’s worse than alcohol. Everything beneath alcohol and tobacco should be totally legal if we’re going to have a logical cohesive policy on drugs. I’d love to see someone put Sugar on this graph btw.

a general rule of thumb is that one in 1,000 skiers is injured, one in 100 snowboarders, and one in 10 downhill cyclists.

How did she figure that when

The incidence of injuries among all riders couldn’t be determined because mountain operators didn’t share the total number of cyclists.

However, both your statements are sensationalist.

1/10 downhillers sustain a life threatening injury in whistler

At a quick glance 8.5 percent of 1/10 are critically injured.

Based on that particular published research, it would have been more correct to summarise as
“1/10 injuries sustained by riders on the bike park are are threatening to life or limb”
or “8.5% of of the 898 riders surveyed suffered injuries threatening life or limb”

There is a significant difference

I would propose that in place of ‘legalising’ the controlled substances, governments or administrations take the socially responsible position of regulation.

Thereby, a form of quality control and income generation is realised and the £20 a fix street addicts are not going to be smoking, snorting or injecting some brown substance that could or could not be their panacea.

Distribution would also be regulated through pharmacies for example.

This will require dialogue with the current manufacturers and supply chain of course, which will also require the governments and administrations and middle society to take their heads out of the sand, remove their fingers from their ears and stop going “la la la la la la” as they will need to recognise that it all exists.

In exchange, the current manufacturers, or growers, and their supply chain will be able to receive unlaundered money for their efforts and the taxable revenue would swell public purses and probably reduce the western world debt problems within a few years. This is of course coupled with less strain on law enforcement agencies, health services, social services etc etc.

There will always be some people in every society who are unable to control their behaviour and there will be addicts, in just the same way we have alcoholics and cigarette smokers. For the rest of us, who are able to apply a level of self control and self responsibility, it means that when we want a good night out, quality and safety are assured to an even higher level.

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