Said it before, but will say it again:
Make it all legal, but make people as aware as possible in advance of the risks involved (based on actual scientific research, rather than scare stories) and let people make their own decisions. I'd also tax things in proportion to the amount of added burden they are expected to place on the NHS and earmark that tax for such treatment.

So, yeah, treat people like adults really.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 10 Jan 2012, 10:40, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

Yeah but a lot of adults are twats.

( girlinthehole, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 10:41, Reply)

Said it before, but will say it again:
/ac
Then remove their right to vote and classify them as not adults, but if you have a system that deems everyone over 18 and not actually mentally disabled as a rational, voting, adult (and whether you should is a whole other argument) then you should treat them as such. These twats decide (in theory, another debate here) bigger thing than what they can drink/smoke/inject/shove up their noses.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 10 Jan 2012, 10:44, Reply)

But how does one quantify who is a twat and who isn't.
It's subjective.
( girlinthehole, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 10:45, Reply)

It's not actually.
I am the final arbiter.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 10:50, Reply)

This is the big debate
Personally I'd make everyone pass a citizenship/intelligence test before they can vote of breed, but if we are talking within the current legal framework, it's age based.

I'm not going to get in to the wider political debate because it's almost endless, I'm just saying that a rational adult (however you define that) should be given all the relevant info and be allowed to make their own decisions. If you can vote on who runs the country, you should be allowed any substances you like, as long as sufficient measures are taken to avoid harm to others.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 10 Jan 2012, 10:54, Reply)

CQ for our glorious leader!
Up the revolution!
( girlinthehole, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 10:55, Reply)

revolution bum

Hur hur
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 11:03, Reply)

Fcuk that. IQ tests would only make for a dull shit population chatting about star trek and playing dungeons and dragons.

( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 11:04, Reply)

Fine by me
I'd be happy for you and Beej to decide between you, although we might get a lot of chubby ginger voters.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 10 Jan 2012, 11:09, Reply)

I'm happy to let people run ferral like they do now.

( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 11:12, Reply)

I don't want to be in charge of anything.
I'm a follower, not a leader.
( girlinthehole, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 11:12, Reply)

Fine, as neither of you want to the job, we'll go back to my original system.

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 10 Jan 2012, 11:19, Reply)