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If you were advocating abstaining from black market products your comment would make sense, but saying "keep everything like it is right now" is saying that we

• ineedasername 7y ago
  And where did I say "keep everything as it is" now? Perhaps I should have been clearer: by prohibition in this context, because we already have legal prohibition, i.e., it's against the law, I meant in the vein of abstinence, that we should be telling people "don't do it".
  • mullingitover 7y ago
    We don't exactly have prohibition. We have a perverse, contradictory patchwork of state level legalization, federal level prohibition that overrules the state legalization efforts, federal prohibitions on enforcing federal prohibition laws in states that have legalized, and then in some states, outright prohibition (with black market product flowing in every state regardless). It's prohibiting the FDA from providing common-sense regulation to provide safe product. We already tell people "don't do it." That's a failed policy that's producing hundreds of sick people. We need to make harm reduction via regulation the default case.
    • ineedasername 7y ago
      "> We need to make harm reduction via regulation the default case." Yes, it seems we basically agree. Which means we're just arguing over my initially poor choice of words. Sorry!
      • mullingitover 7y ago
        I had a feeling. No worries, happy Friday :)