Yep, we even have a name for substances that are generally recognized as safe, are consumed regularly by lots of people, and live a de facto decriminalized state— party drugs. We're doing people a disservice by not providing them in an above-board pure form, and bucketing them in with "not-even-once" drugs.
How we didn't see that normalizing business dealings with criminal enterprise and then selling diy testing kits at the pharmacy wasn't a good way to handle this is beyond me. We could have taken the hint that once they're legalized in 1-2 states the safety and quality across the US jumps for some unknown reason.
Drug policy is often more about finding excuses to punish certain types or groups of people the state doesn't like, than it is about safety and health.
How we didn't see that normalizing business dealings with criminal enterprise and then selling diy testing kits at the pharmacy wasn't a good way to handle this is beyond me. We could have taken the hint that once they're legalized in 1-2 states the safety and quality across the US jumps for some unknown reason.