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Also all drugs are equivalent, and we can avoid their negative effects by making them illegal.
by orangecat 7y ago
Also all drugs are equivalent, and we can avoid their negative effects by making them illegal.
- tomjakubowski 7y agoYes. A UK doctor's account of his patients' lives before and after heroin was made illegal to prescribe: https://www.spectator.co.uk/2015/05/the-case-for-prescription-heroin/ https://www.spectator.co.uk/2015/05/the-case-for-prescriptio...
- tathougies 7y agoYes, we actually can. People like to talk about Prohibition as being a failure, but Prohibition actually resulted in a substantially lower rate of liver cirrhosis. People drank less and suffered less as a result. I'm not saying we need prohibition, but the idea that making drugs illegal doesn't work is absolutely ridiculous.
- sgift 7y agoYes, if we ignore all the other effects (e.g.: financing of organized crime, bringing people in contact with said organized crime) then sure, the prohibition was a sounding success. If we include all of these it doesn't look so great anymore.