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The political left generally favors legalization of recreational drugs, even if they aren't good for you. Yet it opposes letting people take pharmaceuticals tha
by Bostonian 5y ago
The political left generally favors legalization of recreational drugs, even if they aren't good for you. Yet it opposes letting people take pharmaceuticals that may only be of marginal benefit. Maybe you can argue that Medicare should not pay for Biogen's drug, but how can you ban it without evidence that it worsens the health of people with Alzheimer's?
- dragonwriter 5y ago> The political left generally favors legalization of recreational drugs That's...not true. The left spans the entire spectrum from left-libertarian “legalize everything” to hardcore “recreational drugs are a tool of capitalist institutions to dull the minds of the proletariat” prohibitionists. Most of them oppose the War on Drugs as practiced in, say, the US, but the former does so because of the restriction on drugs while the latter does so because the War o Drugs is seen as an excuse for criminalization of and fostering divisions with the proletariat, serving as part of the same capitalist control regime as drugs themselves.