My understanding is that prescription level doesn't even come close to the experience of a meth high due to much lower equivalent dosage.
They are dangerous drugs with serious side effects like cardiac damage. There’s a book called Blitzed that talks about the mass abuse of amphetamines in WW2 Germany.
The argument is not that the drugs have no side effects or that there are not serious side effects. It is that black market drugs come with all of those side effects plus many more negative effects due to the lack of quality control and unreliable supply chains.
I think the argument works for marijuana, and but not for these other drugs. Getting a script for meth or heroin isn’t a good idea.
Decriminalization to allow people to get help may be a way to help address some of the issues.
But getting a "script" for adderal or oxycontin is totally different, right?
It was called Pervitin, and found in every soldiers lunch box. Everyone could buy it in his local pharmacy. The germans even won their first soccer world cup on it. Bad stuff.
Churchill was one of them
Most drugs can have serious side effects. Alcohol, caffeine etc. Paul Erdos liked his amphetamines too. I can't exactly argue that we're worse off for it as a society.