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Most of the blame lies squarely on keeping these drugs illegal, thus ensuring that users often don't know what drugs they're getting or the drugs' purity, leadi
by pmoriarty 5y ago
Most of the blame lies squarely on keeping these drugs illegal, thus ensuring that users often don't know what drugs they're getting or the drugs' purity, leading them to overestimate how much of a given drug they need to take.
Of course there are also intentional overdoses (ie. suicides) caused by the misery that many people live in (which is often caused by poverty).
But unintentional overdoses are mostly caused by the War on Drugs.
- downrightmike 5y agoIf we want to win the war on drugs going on for 50 years, things need to be regulated and controlled. Fun fact the American colonies only had the wealth to survive because of tobacco. They grew it everywhere they could, even the sides of the street in Jamestown. https://www.nps.gov/jame/learn/historyculture/tobacco-colonial-cultivation-methods.htm https://www.nps.gov/jame/learn/historyculture/tobacco-coloni...