I took mephedrone and I liked it

You are more of an optimist than I. I don't think the governments feel any compunction to apply consistency in their decisions; they opt for rhetoric. So I actually could imagine (in my most dystopian nightmares, which are materializing all too commonly these days) legislation that basically outlaws all consciousness altering drugs unless they are on an approved list (in other words, a movement from implcit legality--legal unless said otherwise--to implicit illegality).

This may seem like pessimistic doom-saying. Perhaps it is, but it seems clear to me that at least the trend is in that direction. So they could even legalize something like marijuana while outlawing other things em masse. Stranger things have happened. And even if such a thing doesn't come about (and it seems unlikely that it will), it is certainly the case that more extreme measures will be employed as even the most brain-dead drug warriors grok the futility of their task and stop believing their own rhetoric so strongly. Sadly, I think many of the drug warriors really have convinced themselves that they can win a drug war. When they wake up, instead of giving up they'll probably just expand the scope of the war. Desperate times call for desperate measures, after all, and they actually think they have the wisdom and intelligence to envision the society in which we should be living.

Too bad they're so utterly wrong about that, but its not surprising. To be truly stupid one needs to be unaware of one's own stupidity.

There are too many legal high drugs to ban unless every substance with any mood altering effects is banned too - coffee, alcohol and yes, even tea. Bananas can be good but you need around two dozen to feel good. Is it worth the indigestion?

"Personally, I don’t like the idea that I am having a good night because I’ve taken something to make me feel as though I am enjoying myself; I like having a good night out because I actually am enjoying myself."

That's a distinction without a difference if I've ever seen one.

The doctor's conclusions are a symptom of a much larger problem - society has a deeply flawed ethical framework for dealing with drugs. It's apparent in almost every mainstream media article about drugs. It's going to be a LONG time before this is sorted out.

Instead of empathogens, what we really need are irony-ogens. I've been seeing this a lot lately; statements with obvious satirical, ironic, or sarcastic intent being taken a face value, to no good ends. It's happened twice to far in this thread alone, and I'm seriously starting to fear for the human race. We need something to counteract this burgeoning trend of hyper-literalism, lest all conversations devolve into accusations of stupidity or trollish-misconduct.

Sasha Shulgin needs to get cracking on this, ASAP.

I think that while no government should be able to crack down on a chemical like they do, if they're going to do it, I'd rather see it done to chemicals that actually cause harm.

The reasons for this is strictly moral. That is, we agree that to be inebriated on a chemical outside of the above is to be deviant. And criminal.