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> instead of having jobs they were stealing If opiates were legal, it seems unlikely to me that any significant number of people would need to steal to support

> instead of having jobs they were stealing If opiates were legal, it seems unlikely to me that any significant number of people would need to steal to support their habit. I lived in Canada for a few years, and had a friend up there who worked in an ER there. All of the drugs they used had price tags on them as an incentive to remind the staff how much government money they were spending when they used them. He told me the giant syringes full of morphine that they used for severe burn injuries were a tagged as a few dollars. Here in Washington state, legalizing marijuana has driven down the price so much that it's actually hard for growers to turn a profit. FWIW, I don't use either of them.

sonnyblarney 7y ago
Lowering the price will simply increase consumption (supply and demand). I don't see how making addictive poison cheaper is in any way positive for anyone least of all the users - most of whom will be addicts, not casual users. FYI - people steal for dope not because it's insanely expensive, they steal because their lives are ruined and that's their recourse. It's really nary impossible to make the case that we should be make super cheap opiates widely available. There is a reason (actually many) that it's essentially illegal everywhere on the planet wherein there is any form of governance. The odd thing about the 'drugs debate' is how many very intelligent people have trouble with seeing the societal implications. To me the very debate itself is a fascinating social phenom, and I wonder what drives people to make odd arguments.