Did you know each Belgian "drug dealer with a license" (aka pharmacist) has the possibility to order the most pure and chemically made cocaine?
What's the reason behind this? Keeping us focused! Every now and then a Belgian pharmacist has to snort a bit of cocaine, just to stay focused. Long working hours, difficult patients,...
Just kidding! The reason behind the legal cocaine business in Belgium is very simple; sometimes a pharmacist has to make its own preparations. For example, we use it for a specific type of eye drops, used to diagnose a patient for the Horner-syndrome, sometimes in preparations that are used as a local anesthetic, (The nose, the nose! Very painful to operate, cocaine does the job!), et cetera...
This brings us to the bigger picture; we have medicinal weed, medicinal cocaine,... Why not sell hard drugs in a pharmacy? I'm not saying we should make all drugs legal but we know many people buy them on the black market. Meaning, no quality control (You could be buying all kinds of shit), dealers who don't give a damn if a user overdoses (All about the money),...
A lot of people use it for recreational use (You known it, I know it, everybody knows it.). Regulated the stuff I would say. Is somebody who uses LCD once a month an addict? No. Is somebody who uses cocaine once a month an addict? No. Is somebody who uses mushrooms once a month an addict? No. Is somebody who use LCD, cocaine and mushrooms once a month an addict? He or she is starting to get there. But nobody has control over it. When you go to you local dealer does he sell one snort of cocaine or one mushroom? I don't think so (Or I've never met them, also a possibility.)
But if you have a legal place to buy it, you could register the use of a user/patient. You want your monthly trip to Disneyland? No problem. You want your daily trip to wonderland? Here is your social worker.
Except for heroin, I think they should ban heroin.
Would love to hear your opinion!
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