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Heroin can be a useful medication. Street opiates are bad because there's no regulation. It's not inherent in the medication. Take _anything_ and vary the stren
by MichaelGG 10y ago
Heroin can be a useful medication. Street opiates are bad because there's no regulation. It's not inherent in the medication. Take _anything_ and vary the strength/purity by 50x and see how many people die. A 50x dose of Tylenol will kill you just as well (more painful, actually).
- x1798DE 10y agoYou don't really need regulation to get consistent strength/purity, branding (Buy Mack's Heroin - guaranteed 99.99% pure with no adulterants!) and tort law (you said this contained 20mg of heroin, it contained, dangerously, twice that amount, you are liable for my consequent overdose) should be enough to handle that, if producers were competing on quality and not "ability to operate in a black market".