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Coffee is legal and therefore cheap. Opioids are illegal and therefore expensive. Maybe this has something to do with it? Imagine a world where opioids were as
by amanaplanacanal 5y ago
Coffee is legal and therefore cheap. Opioids are illegal and therefore expensive. Maybe this has something to do with it?
Imagine a world where opioids were as cheap as a cup of coffee. Do you envision people stealing and prostituting themselves to buy them?
- someguydave 5y agoyes, because addiction will trash people’s lives
- spywaregorilla 5y ago> Do you envision people stealing and prostituting themselves to buy them? I'm pretty sure you'd suck a strangers dick to end the pains of opioid withdrawal regardless of cost if it was the only immediately available option. I'm pretty sure fentanyl is fairly cheap too fwiw.
- tshaddox 5y agoLamborghinis are expensive too, but you don’t hear about people doing those things to afford them. I wonder if cost isn’t the only factor.
- pstuart 5y agoIndeed. Poppies are easy to grow and one could have large fields of them with little effort or expense. I believe that all drugs should be legal but along with the regulation/taxation of same, society needs to have "grown up" conversations about addiction and abuse.
- steveBK123 5y agoDo you understand how physical dependence works and how opioids are some of the most addictive substances known to man? Most anyone can go a day, week or month without coffee and not end up sweating or vomiting, nor attempting to rob a Starbucks to get a fix. There are not special drugs, medical treatments, clinics and counseling to help people quit coffee, right? I wonder what the difference in dependence is?
- voisin 5y agoNot even imaginary - just read up on opium dens, which operated very similarly to coffee shops.