Let's talk about drugs

Disclaimer : Non-userAs soon as you start talking legalization, one of the first questions to come up is - "where do we draw the line?"Do me make pot legal, but keep coke illegal? Etc.I have a simple solution to this problem, one that would be clear to anyone trying to make a distinction about any given new drug.Processing is illegal. If you can pick it, you can do what you want it with. If you have to make it, you can't.Poppies? Legal. Opium, illegal.
Pot? Legal.
Mushrooms? Legal.
Katt (or however you spell it. Africian stimulant)? Legal.
Crystal Meth? Illegal.I have a lot of trouble with a system that makes a "weed" which can grow wildly almost anywhere in the US illegal.

As it pertains to the DEA? Yes. Though, as an agricultural enterprise, I'm sure you would still have to deal with zoning issues and whatever other agencies have sway over crop growing, what pesticides you can use, etc. etc. etc.It's completely legal for you to distill alcohol in your house, but if you want to sell or distribute that legal product, you have to deal with all sorts of regulations.MJ should be no different

I gotta disagree with the "don't draw a line" stance.There are certain drugs which are obviously much more severe than others.Crystal Meth is not the same as Pot on a number of levels.What continued use does to the Meth head is very different than what pot does to the pot head.The manufacture of crystal meth has put a very severe strain on our emergency rooms and burn units (seriously, a large percentage of patients in burn wards are people who's meth labs have blown up).I don't think there's a really severe uptick in the number of pot growers who've had to go to the emergency room planter's warts.The artificually manufactured / processed drugs clearly are a teir onto themselves

Well that doesn't really equate, does it?First off, if pot is legal, like tobacco is legal, there wouldn't be much insentive for people to be raiding the crops.I mean, do tobacco growers have a huge problem with people storming their fields?I'm not suggesting that legalization is a cure all for criminality, what I am suggesting is that making a plant that grows wild in the US illegal is sort of silly. If dandelions were illegal, how would we enforce?