Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Responsible drug use


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   keep.  MBisanz  talk 02:05, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Responsible drug use

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Completing nomination for IP. Reason on edit summary was: I abstain. MrKIA11 (talk) 19:46, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete or Merge with harm reduction. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.202.235.113 (talk) 19:05, December 2, 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep. Looks like a well written article on a sensible subject with good references to reliable sources.  It's too in-depth to merge to the more general harm reduction article.  JulesH (talk) 20:08, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep I would have to say this is one of the better articles I have seen on AfD. This seems a clearly notable topic with references from reliable sources.  I would argue it needs a little Wikification and cleanup, but the article is a quality article about an important and notable topic.  Theseeker4 (talk) 20:23, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete This article is basically about one paper and that's it. There is no significance outside of the summary of the Gould paper.  If not, then merge to Harm Reduction it could be cited and condensed to one reference in the larger article.  I'm sorry, but suggesting trip guides for psychedelics and making obvious statements about how it is hard to use illegal drugs reposnsibly because they are illegal does not an article make.-- 20 08 Ol ymp ian chitchat 08:44, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:45, 7 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Weak Delete. Seems pretty unencyclopedic to me. Jonathan321 (talk) 00:56, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment. I tagged this article for cleanup. Jonathan321 (talk) 00:58, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep - 'responsible drug use' is not the same topic as 'harm minimisation'. The article needs a good edit. - Richard Cavell (talk) 01:06, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep There are citable sources. Responsible and illegal are two different things, and it is certainly possible for people to do responsible things which are illegal-- this happens all the time with bad laws (example: fugitive slave laws). More to the point, during alcohol prohibition when many aspects of manufacturing and sale of certain alcohol products was illegal in the US, it was still just as possible to be a responsible user of alcohol, as it is now. Nor is illegal psychoactive or narcotic drug-use automatically always "recreational," except by somebody's very poor definition. S  B Harris 05:26, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge to Harm reduction Reading the article makes it clear that it is not really a separate topic. The first section is about a particular not notable book chapter, and the others are miscellaneous information that belongs in the main article if it isn't already there. DGG (talk) 05:18, 9 December 2008 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.