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Would you agree that defining which drugs are illegal ought to be a science-based process and not an ideological/policy-based one? And if you agree to that, wo
by andrei_says_ 10y ago
Would you agree that defining which drugs are illegal ought to be a science-based process and not an ideological/policy-based one?
And if you agree to that, would you agree that the current policies based on racism and political goals would benefit from reform or do you think we should continue supporting them and the intentions behind them?
- dragonwriter 10y ago> Would you agree that defining which drugs are illegal ought to be a science-based process and not an ideological/policy-based one? Deciding the criteria ultimately cannot be anything but an ideological policy decision. Deciding which specific drugs meet that criteria may be a scientific questions (if the criteria is such that that is the appropriate method of determining it.)
- andrei_says_ 10y agoThats a very good point and will help me adjust my thinking on the topic. Do you see the possibility for a scientific process which would help define criteria?
- dragonwriter 10y ago> Do you see the possibility for a scientific process which would help define criteria? At root, criteria are a value proposition, not a fact proposition. Science answers (or, predicts answers to) fact propositions, not value propositions.
- frobozz 10y agoDavid Nutt tried this by defining the harmfulness of various drugs. He was sacked for it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Nutt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Nutt