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Are you fine if depressed/lonely/traumatized people are being targeted with highly addictive drugs that could kill them? You can say that it's their choice but
by YetAnotherNick 8y ago
Are you fine if depressed/lonely/traumatized people are being targeted with highly addictive drugs that could kill them? You can say that it's their choice but you need right mind for the choice.
Are you fine if your child has easy access to drugs and it being 'cool' to have drugs?
- eeeeeeeeeeeee 8y agoSeriously? That already is happening. Look at the opioid crisis and fentanyl. This is about not taking a clear public HEALTH issue into a criminal justice one. Why do so many Americans think we can jail or kill our way out of every single problem?
- YetAnotherNick 8y agoYes I specifically told the things that is currently happening and I am not fine with it. I am not saying that mushrooms should be banned, just saying I criticize legalizing everything just because you have choice to not do drugs.
- eeeeeeeeeeeee 8y agoDo you support the return of prohibition of alcohol, then, but keeping it "decriminalized"? I think a lot of this fear that legalizing drugs will lead to a bunch of non-drug users suddenly becoming drug addicts is simply hysteria. People use illegal drugs to self-medicate some other problem; healthy people are not suddenly going to want to be crack users. A lot of the hysteria in Colorado prior to marijuana legalization was that youth consumption rates would increase. The opposite happened: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/12/11/following-marijuana-legalization-teen-drug-use-is-down-in-colorado/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/12/11/follo...
- tiles 8y agoOxyContin is an example of targeting vulnerable with highly addictive drugs that can kill you. Corporations are far more effective at this than a local mushroom dealer.