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> that legal drugs will cause harm. The GP specifically said to "tax them and spend the money on rehab and education", so I assume he did recognize this.
by klibertp 9y ago
> that legal drugs will cause harm.
The GP specifically said to "tax them and spend the money on rehab and education", so I assume he did recognize this.
- DanBC 9y agoThat approach doesn't seem to have worked so well for alcohol.
- noer 9y agoThe tax revenue isn't spent on rehab though
- refurb 9y agoCompared to what? During prohibition? I'd say things are much better now than then.
- klibertp 9y agoI'm not sure. From what I've read it worked quite well in Scandinavian countries. For example, Norway, while consuming approximately the same amount of alcohol (with a slight upwards tendency, but with spirits usage going down in favor of wine), has had 20 years of non-stop reduction of deaths related to alcohol usage from 1980-2001 (http://www.who.int/substance_abuse/publications/en/norway.pdf http://www.who.int/substance_abuse/publications/en/norway.pd...). That, to an outsider like me, suggests that they have something that works, although I don't know exactly what it is.