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I don't think that something as harmful as heroin should be legal to sell, even in a taxed and regulated scenario. Other options that, in my amateur opinion, w

I don't think that something as harmful as heroin should be legal to sell, even in a taxed and regulated scenario. Other options that, in my amateur opinion, would be better, would be to more heavily penalise adultered drugs, or to have pharmacies supply, with a prescription, addictive drugs, but only to addicts. The latter idea is basically an extension of safe injection clinics.

rblatz 9y ago
There are multiple drugs of the same class as heroin that are actually stronger and more dangerous than heroin that are legal. But they aren’t sold cut to hell with fillers in order to make extra money.
- eitland 9y ago
  They are also only sold with a prescription. And while I know US has an opioid crisis this prescription thing seems to work here.
  - justrobert 9y ago
    Except anyone can buy fent online easily. Far more dangerous for anyone who is near those that buy it.
    - apexalpha 9y ago
      Except people don't here.
      - jowsie 9y ago
        Then how is it getting cut into all the heroin being sold in the states? Someone must be buying it ...
derefr 9y ago
It doesn't have to be sold to the end-consumer; but it does have to make a profit for the producer/distributor (e.g. one of the big pharma companies) if you want to disincentivize the black-market producers. Probably this would mean that the government itself buys the drugs from the pharma companies, and then gives them away for free to prescribed+registered users. It's the fact that the pharma company has someone to profit by selling the drugs to, that incentivizes clean/pure/safely dosed drugs to be produced.
herbst 9y ago
Pharma grade heroin from the state is a thing in Switzerland. It works pretty well actually and turned a big problem into a small controlled one. Most addicts even have normal jobs.
barry-cotter 9y ago
Alcohol abuse is more harmful than crack or heroin abuse, according to a new study by a former British government drug advisor and other experts. Neuropharmacologist David Nutt, MD, of Imperial College London, and colleagues rated 20 different drugs on a scale that takes into account the various harms caused by a drug. Drugs are rated on nine harms a drug causes an individual and seven harms a drug causes society. The scale, developed by a panel of experts called the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs (ICSD), ranges from 0 (no harm) to 100 (greatest possible harm). It is weighted so that a drug that scores 50 is half as harmful as a drug that scores 100. "The highest and lowest overall harm scores … are 72 for alcohol and 5 for mushrooms," Nutt and colleagues calculate. "The ICSD scores lend support to the widely accepted view that alcohol is an extremely harmful drug both to users and to society https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/addiction/news/20101101/alcohol-more-harmful-than-crack-or-heroin https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/addiction/news/20101101/...

rblatz 9y ago

There are multiple drugs of the same class as heroin that are actually stronger and more dangerous than heroin that are legal. But they aren’t sold cut to hell with fillers in order to make extra money.

eitland 9y ago
They are also only sold with a prescription. And while I know US has an opioid crisis this prescription thing seems to work here.
- justrobert 9y ago
  Except anyone can buy fent online easily. Far more dangerous for anyone who is near those that buy it.
  - apexalpha 9y ago
    Except people don't here.
    - jowsie 9y ago
      Then how is it getting cut into all the heroin being sold in the states? Someone must be buying it ...

derefr 9y ago

It doesn't have to be sold to the end-consumer; but it does have to make a profit for the producer/distributor (e.g. one of the big pharma companies) if you want to disincentivize the black-market producers. Probably this would mean that the government itself buys the drugs from the pharma companies, and then gives them away for free to prescribed+registered users. It's the fact that the pharma company has someone to profit by selling the drugs to, that incentivizes clean/pure/safely dosed drugs to be produced.

herbst 9y ago

Pharma grade heroin from the state is a thing in Switzerland. It works pretty well actually and turned a big problem into a small controlled one. Most addicts even have normal jobs.

barry-cotter 9y ago

Alcohol abuse is more harmful than crack or heroin abuse, according to a new study by a former British government drug advisor and other experts. Neuropharmacologist David Nutt, MD, of Imperial College London, and colleagues rated 20 different drugs on a scale that takes into account the various harms caused by a drug. Drugs are rated on nine harms a drug causes an individual and seven harms a drug causes society. The scale, developed by a panel of experts called the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs (ICSD), ranges from 0 (no harm) to 100 (greatest possible harm). It is weighted so that a drug that scores 50 is half as harmful as a drug that scores 100. "The highest and lowest overall harm scores … are 72 for alcohol and 5 for mushrooms," Nutt and colleagues calculate. "The ICSD scores lend support to the widely accepted view that alcohol is an extremely harmful drug both to users and to society https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/addiction/news/20101101/alcohol-more-harmful-than-crack-or-heroin https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/addiction/news/20101101/...