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I'm going to go off on a limb and say for at least 90% of kids, it is easier to obtain alcohol than heroin or meth. That is not a very controversial assumption.
by tolbish 5y ago
I'm going to go off on a limb and say for at least 90% of kids, it is easier to obtain alcohol than heroin or meth. That is not a very controversial assumption.
- cloverich 5y agoI would bet more would be able to find a drug dealer than you'd think, which is all you need to access any of the drugs you can think of. The more general point is that its not the legality that is stopping most kids from becoming addicted to heroin. The primary thing is that most kids don't want to do heroin. Making it legal (and highly regulated) isn't going to change that. You can't stop something as pervasive as drugs no matter how many people you incarcerate or kill attempting to do so. Prohibition has a real cost and it isn't low, time will tell but I am unsure why the current pohibition and its related drug cartels are viewed any differently than Al Capone and alcohol prohibiation. We can legalize it, tax it, regulate it, and further educate people to make good choices. We can eliminate drug cartels and remove funding from vast criminal networks across the US all in one go. We can train people to be nurses and mental health workers instead of cops and DEA agents. And we can probably _save_ money in the process.
- tolbish 5y ago> You can't stop something as pervasive as drugs no matter how many people you incarcerate or kill attempting to do so. Most countries do just this. Of course some will get through the cracks, but they're aiming to lower the number of users, not hit 0 exactly. Also, you don't have the data to say that making heroin and meth as available as alcohol actually works on a large scale.