Ain’t Nobody’s Business But My Own –
MARCH 26, 2019 – That isn’t stopping Steve Rolles, a senior policy analyst at the Transform Drug Policy Foundation, a UK think tank. He’s hoping that nations will soon regulate and legalize the sale, possession and use of “uppers.” He isn’t saying these drugs don’t have risks—but he notes that prohibition does nothing to address these risks, and that we need a different approach. “The danger of a particular drug is the reason to regulate it, not the reason to run away from it,” Rolles said in a call with Filter. “For me, it doesn’t really matter how dangerous a particular drug is. If people are using it, we have to accept that prohibition is still going to make it more dangerous and regulation is going to make it safer. It’s a fundamentally pragmatic position.”
