The Right To Intoxication?

 There's a German Green Party member who made a speech and hyped up the idea that the public ought to have a right to intoxication....not referring to booze/beer/wine, but to drugs.  And I should add....they didn't mean just Cannabis or hash....they meant the hard stuff (heroin, meth, LSD, crack, fentanyl, etc).

To this point, if you walk around Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Berlin or Frankfurt....to a great extent....the public prosecutor and city council folks....are pursuing that dynamic, and pretending it's not a public issue anymore.

Is it written down as a right?  No.  

Could you convince the public to accept this as a right?  You might be able to say that Cannabis/weed/hash....is not a big issue and should be legalized.  I'd say among Germans in the 18-to-45 year group....more than two-thirds would support this.  Among Germans older?  Less than twenty-percent (I believe).  I should state as well...in the legalized effort, the majority want regulations and some value assigned to the THC levels of Marijuana.

Historically, after WW I....the drug business went into overdrive in Germany, and you had a lot of acceptance in urbanized areas (going way past Cannabis).  At some point in the 1930s....that acceptance dried up (under the Nazi leadership).  After WW II?  There were a fair number of ex-solders who had strong drug habits for the war period (using 'uppers' a good bit)....so the year or two after the war....was a rough period.

But here is the problem in this discussion.  There are various people who suggest that a right to walking down a needle-less street should exist.  There are people who believe that streets shouldn't be littered with drug addicts.....should be a right. Then someone would bring up....who would pay for the intoxication right....the general public?  

It's an interesting discussion.

I could even see someone saying that intoxication is a right, and that rehab efforts should be folded up and closed....letting a person go as far as they want in intoxicating themselves (possibly dying).  

So when you hear this right for intoxication.....you will understand the dynamics of the discussion.