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The appetite for drugs or the criminalization that creates the black market? Heavy drug users have more immediate concerns than second and third order effects
by dasil003 8y ago
The appetite for drugs or the criminalization that creates the black market? Heavy drug users have more immediate concerns than second and third order effects of their lifestyle choices. The politicians and lobbyists responsible for maintaining the status quo on the other hand, should probably pull their heads out of their asses.
- bumholio 8y agoI am sure a widescale decriminalization of hard drugs south of the US border will be applauded in Washington. It would solve a large part of the drug crime problems in these countries, while raining down industrial quantities of pharmaceutical grade heroin on the US streets.
- JamesBarney 8y agoI had a ex-friend(went to middle school with him) die recently from a drug overdose, and when I was talking with his parents on the way to the burial site his dad said that he could take him to any town in the U.S. and he could find heroin, get back to the hotel, and get high in under an hour. I don't think supply is limiting the amount of drugs that abusers are doing.
- dredds 8y agoIt was tried, was a success, and wasn't applauded. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17608261 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17608261 It's been effective in the countries that have tried it since. Overdose is the failure of dose management. Harm reduction is less profitable than addiction. Wars create jobs and huge profits. Collateral damage is the human cost. Success wasn't the goal.