I think that ignores how much worse heroin is than alcohol on every metric under typical usage and in the aggregate. We have prohibition all over the place. We

I think that ignores how much worse heroin is than alcohol on every metric under typical usage and in the aggregate. We have prohibition all over the place. We prohit murder. We prohibit drunk driving even though we allow drinking. There is no obvious dividing line between what drugs should be illegal, regulated, or how much regulation (of which prohibition the maximal subset). Unless you don't think it should be illegal to give heroin to a baby, for example, then we are already talking about degrees of regulation. Talk of prohibition is useless. Do you want a Nordic model of highly regulated, decriminalized? Because that is a whole different ballgame. I really don't care about the policy that much, either, I just wanted to strongly push back on people minimizing the dangers of heroin. It is a lethal, life destroying drug and it's one of only a few I would strongly advice people to never even try once, regardless of legality. If I can convince a single HN commenter to avoid it, then I'm happy.