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The meth is ADHD medicine. Nobody is going to make it at home if it is made easy available. If society develops a reasonable culture of it's consumption we pro

by trhway 5y ago

The meth is ADHD medicine. Nobody is going to make it at home if it is made easy available. If society develops a reasonable culture of it's consumption we probably would see a boost of productivity and creativity instead of the growth of the wasteful prison industrial complex. >These radical criminal businessmen began as Communist partisans and Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution, and were sent to Guangdong province in southeast China for re-education in the 1960s and ’70s. Must be something in the communist Kool aid. Disproportionate share of the Russian businessmen of 199x with all it's ruthlessness, illegallity and violent crimes, raiding and takeovers came straight from the Young Communist organization bureaucracy.

cgh 5y ago
My guess is supply would be constrained because of how addictive it is. You’d still end up with street-level dealers selling it. I could be wrong but it’s hard to see how cheap, legal, easily-available meth can lead to anything but an addiction crisis.
- hellbannedguy 5y ago
  I'm ok with low level drug dealers still selling. Opening up a weed store is far from a sure thing. I know a few guys who smoke and they use dealers because of cost. Fine the drug dealers civil court. Get then where it hurts. Go after the dealers living in the nice home, driving the Mercedes Station Wagon. We are always going to find a reason to not legalize drugs. With the exception of antibiotics; Let's leagalize them all, including all those psychiatric drugs we need to pay $450 a session to get. Put a sticker on the bottle, "Want to have a few nights of fun, and many nights of misery open this bottle. And I know you the level headed guy who is strong willed and thinks you are the exception. Why take the risk. We have a poor social support system, and most rehabs are a joke." Make the tax reasonable, and put that money towards our homeless problem.
- pas 5y ago
  It's already that. It's already unimaginably bad thanks to it being shunned into the shadows where most users are hidden, left behind to be eaten alive by their worst impulses. https://www.econtalk.org/sam-quinones-on-meth-fentanyl-and-the-least-of-us/ https://www.econtalk.org/sam-quinones-on-meth-fentanyl-and-t...

by trhway 5y ago

cgh 5y ago

My guess is supply would be constrained because of how addictive it is. You’d still end up with street-level dealers selling it. I could be wrong but it’s hard to see how cheap, legal, easily-available meth can lead to anything but an addiction crisis.

hellbannedguy 5y ago
I'm ok with low level drug dealers still selling. Opening up a weed store is far from a sure thing. I know a few guys who smoke and they use dealers because of cost. Fine the drug dealers civil court. Get then where it hurts. Go after the dealers living in the nice home, driving the Mercedes Station Wagon. We are always going to find a reason to not legalize drugs. With the exception of antibiotics; Let's leagalize them all, including all those psychiatric drugs we need to pay $450 a session to get. Put a sticker on the bottle, "Want to have a few nights of fun, and many nights of misery open this bottle. And I know you the level headed guy who is strong willed and thinks you are the exception. Why take the risk. We have a poor social support system, and most rehabs are a joke." Make the tax reasonable, and put that money towards our homeless problem.
pas 5y ago
It's already that. It's already unimaginably bad thanks to it being shunned into the shadows where most users are hidden, left behind to be eaten alive by their worst impulses. https://www.econtalk.org/sam-quinones-on-meth-fentanyl-and-the-least-of-us/ https://www.econtalk.org/sam-quinones-on-meth-fentanyl-and-t...