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>Just end drug prohibition in the USA I’m not sure you’ve run the numbers on this. In 2016 there was 11k gun homicides in the US, and about 64k people died fro
by AmericanChopper 8y ago
>Just end drug prohibition in the USA
I’m not sure you’ve run the numbers on this. In 2016 there was 11k gun homicides in the US, and about 64k people died from opioid overdoses alone. I can’t really see an insentive here for the US.
- vkou 8y agoYou can make an argument that many of those opioid overdoses are due to the illegality of these drugs. People switching from pills to heroin, when they can't get pills. Heroin, or even non-opioid drugs being cut with fentanyl. People relapsing for various reasons.
- AmericanChopper 8y agoYou could, but it wouldn’t carry much weight without any evidence, and it does seem pretty preposterous. I remember when the legalize marijuana campaigns started to gain traction, and they were often parodied by people saying we should also legalize heroin/meth/coke... They were strawmans, but not any less absurd today than they were then.
- hyeonwho4 8y agoOpioids have always been a social problem. Even when they were legal in 19th century England, "Opium dens" were places of decay and destitution.
- tonyedgecombe 8y agoDidn't much of the current opioid problem originate with legal prescription drugs? Anyway I don't think people calling for legalisation are suggesting heroin should be handed out to school kids at break time. You can legalise it and setup strict regulations around it as well as redirect money spent on enforcement to health and prevention.
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