Ham, I'm sensing a theme here... ;-)

Who would have guessed that cider mix was a gateway beverage

Legalisation is never going to be the answer. The two biggest causes of death or illness due to narcotics are the two legal ones. Go figure out what that means if everything were legal. I also find it hard to believe that in the fiction 2015 only heroin and cocaine were still banned. There are other much more harmful drugs out there such as LSD.

There were people in the 1920's living under the prohibition of alcohol who said "Legalisation is never going to be the answer" too.

What we have today is also probihition although you'll never hear it referred to as such, lest people get confused and think they might have a legal right to make their own choices about what they do to their own bodies.

Education is the answer.

You figure out at a very young age not to put your hand in a fire because it hurts, and just because drugs are a harder lesson to learn it doesn't mean you should get sloppy education on the subject.

Everyone deserves to be taught seriously, non-judgmentally, and precisely what they will experience if they decide to dabble, and I don't believe the old "Just Say No" or the new "You're a moron if you smoke weed" campaigns go anywhere near achieving that.

As my 'alternative-reality-portal' is currently in the shop, perhaps you could tell me what it means if drugs were legalized.

Also, I'm not sure where you got your information but LSD is arguably the safest illicit drug. While most drugs are measured in grams or milligrams, the average dosage of LSD is measured in micrograms and the LSD molecule is the smallest of known psychoactive chemicals. This is why LSD can be distributed on blotter paper and why I would argue the relative safety point. Even if the paper is infused with some other, more dangerous drug, it could occur in amounts no larger than a couple hundred micrograms -- far below the amount required to trigger even a threshold effect.

On the other hand, a typical LSD dose is 50 - 150 ug and the LD50 of LSD (the amount at which 50% of test animals died as a result of ingestion) is 12,000 ug (reference: http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/lsd/lsd_dose.shtml) Inferring from that one can assume that taking 80 to 240 average units of acid will lead to a 50% chance of death. While there are not yet any documented cases of LSD poisoning, an overdose is within the realm of possibility provided sufficient brazen ignorance or sheer stupidity -- of which both circumstances, I should add, have an LD50 much higher than that of LSD.

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