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> I support the banning of smoking in a similar fashion as tightly controlling the supply of opioids. Are you saying that you want to model tobacco policy on t
by jMyles 8y ago
> I support the banning of smoking in a similar fashion as tightly controlling the supply of opioids.
Are you saying that you want to model tobacco policy on the most unsuccessful public health policy of all time?
- toomuchtodo 8y agoI’m saying that they are equivalent bad policy, and support tight controls on both. If you research, you’ll see the opioid crisis was kicked off by doctors freely prescribing like it was candy.
- jMyles 8y agoI see - it seems like you're saying something more nuanced than I initially thought. It seemed like you wanted to treat nicotine similarly to opioids, despite the abysmal, historic failure of opioid prohibition and all the death, disease, misery, and international crime that has directly been caused by it. > If you research, you’ll see the opioid crisis was kicked off by doctors freely prescribing like it was candy. I don't agree, nor do most serious drug policy researchers. Horrible problems with opioids have been waxing and waning for about 100 years in the United States, but were largely unknown prior to the Harrison Narcotics Act. Your point is very sound that distributing highly concentrated forms of a drug in the midst of prohibition of more benign forms of that drug is likely to cause bad health outcomes. This is exactly what happened during alcohol prohibition, when consumption of beer dropped to nearly zero while consumption of whiskey soared.