Does DanceSafe support drug legalization?
Drug legalization, or “decriminalization and regulation,” has become a popular debate these days. Like the general population, some harm reduction workers support it and others don’t. Some support it for some drugs (like marijuana and ecstasy), but not for others. DanceSafe currently remains neutral on the issue. While many of the dangers surrounding dance drugs are caused by prohibition (i.e., adulterants on the black market) the legalization of ecstasy and other dance drugs may create a new set of problems. More research needs to happen into how decriminalization and regulation would be implemented before we can take a position on the matter. Regardless of the issue of legalization, however, we are strongly in support of drug policy reform. There are many possible ways to reform local and national drug policy that don’t necessarily involve legalizing drugs, and we think reform is long overdue. We support organizations working for alternatives to the current US policy of waging a “war
