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What you are thinking of as the side effects of drug addiction are mainly the side effects of prohibition. Alcohol addiction is a serious problem, with serious

What you are thinking of as the side effects of drug addiction are mainly the side effects of prohibition. Alcohol addiction is a serious problem, with serious negative consequences. So we made it illegal. And then we had two problems instead of one. Drug laws do not decrease addiction rates. They do make drugs unnecessarily expensive, and force addicts to interact with violent criminal gangs to get them. The negative unintended consequences of drug prohibition are worse than the problem they purport, but fail to solve.

RobertRoberts 5y ago
Which drug will do more harm if freely available to all children? Alcohol, meth, heroin or crack? I will pick alcohol every time over the others.
- haroldp 5y ago
  Which vehicle will do more harm if freely available to all children? Car, tank or crane with wrecking ball? I would suggest that children shouldn't be driving at all.
- boomboomsubban 5y ago
  Why am I forced to choose any or just one? Why do you think alcohol does less harm then any of the others? Currently far, far more children die due to alcohol than the others, and while that's definitely due to availability it's not obvious that wouldn't still be the case if all were legal.
  - RobertRoberts 5y ago
    > Why do you think alcohol does less harm then any of the others? A simple test, give each to a baby/small child and see what happens... I lived in a time where babies were given tiny amounts of alcohol for pain relief and it did no harm that I ever heard. I doubt you can say the same for meth.
    - boomboomsubban 5y ago
      I believe that the consensus is that it did cause a small amount of harm and there likely are horror stories you never heard, that's why the practice stopped, but giving children meth is called adderal. Children also had regular access to small amounts of coke and heroin probably in your grandparents or great grandparents life, remember Coca Cola and laudanum was used for teething. You've never heard of harm from that. Your test says all of them pass.
      - RobertRoberts 5y ago
        Babies are not given adderal.
        boomboomsubban 5y ago
        Are pregnant mothers? No babies are given alcohol either anymore so you'll accept that heroin and cocaine should be legal based on your bullshit test?
    - haroldp 5y ago
      You are mistaken. Vast numbers of American teens are prescribed amphetamines every day. The main difference between elicit recreational methamphetamine use and medical/psychological amphetamine use is circumstances and dosing. Kids on Ritalin are generally in safe situations where they have consulted a psychologist with the involvement of their parents, and are given a pure, unadulterated, small, carefully dosed amount of amphetamines. Meth addicts are typically people with more serious mental issues and in precarious situations, given massive and uncertain doses of unpure, perhaps adulterated amphetamines. The disparate outcomes of those groups are much more about the dosage and the personal/social situation. Pharmacologically, they are pretty much the same drug.
      - RobertRoberts 5y ago
        No babies are prescribed amphetamines.

RobertRoberts 5y ago

Which drug will do more harm if freely available to all children? Alcohol, meth, heroin or crack? I will pick alcohol every time over the others.

haroldp 5y ago
Which vehicle will do more harm if freely available to all children? Car, tank or crane with wrecking ball? I would suggest that children shouldn't be driving at all.
boomboomsubban 5y ago
Why am I forced to choose any or just one? Why do you think alcohol does less harm then any of the others? Currently far, far more children die due to alcohol than the others, and while that's definitely due to availability it's not obvious that wouldn't still be the case if all were legal.
- RobertRoberts 5y ago
  > Why do you think alcohol does less harm then any of the others? A simple test, give each to a baby/small child and see what happens... I lived in a time where babies were given tiny amounts of alcohol for pain relief and it did no harm that I ever heard. I doubt you can say the same for meth.
  - boomboomsubban 5y ago
    I believe that the consensus is that it did cause a small amount of harm and there likely are horror stories you never heard, that's why the practice stopped, but giving children meth is called adderal. Children also had regular access to small amounts of coke and heroin probably in your grandparents or great grandparents life, remember Coca Cola and laudanum was used for teething. You've never heard of harm from that. Your test says all of them pass.
    - RobertRoberts 5y ago
      Babies are not given adderal.
      - boomboomsubban 5y ago
        Are pregnant mothers? No babies are given alcohol either anymore so you'll accept that heroin and cocaine should be legal based on your bullshit test?
  - haroldp 5y ago
    You are mistaken. Vast numbers of American teens are prescribed amphetamines every day. The main difference between elicit recreational methamphetamine use and medical/psychological amphetamine use is circumstances and dosing. Kids on Ritalin are generally in safe situations where they have consulted a psychologist with the involvement of their parents, and are given a pure, unadulterated, small, carefully dosed amount of amphetamines. Meth addicts are typically people with more serious mental issues and in precarious situations, given massive and uncertain doses of unpure, perhaps adulterated amphetamines. The disparate outcomes of those groups are much more about the dosage and the personal/social situation. Pharmacologically, they are pretty much the same drug.
    - RobertRoberts 5y ago
      No babies are prescribed amphetamines.