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>banning alcohol made the problems much much worse The difference with drugs today is that a lot of them can easily kill you or create a physical dependency af
by Epiphany21 5y ago
>banning alcohol made the problems much much worse
The difference with drugs today is that a lot of them can easily kill you or create a physical dependency after the first use. Alcohol won't do that unless you're just chugging Everclear and trying to hurt yourself.
It makes no sense to have a ban on marijuana or magic mushrooms, but crap like Fentanyl and NBOMe should be illegal. They have zero potential to help and are almost certain to harm.
- amanaplanacanal 5y agoI suspect that if morphine and traditional psychedelics were legally available very few people would be that interested in those.
- pengaru 5y ago> but crap like Fentanyl and NBOMe should be illegal. They have zero potential to help and are almost certain to harm. Fentanyl, a commonly prescribed pain-killer, has zero potential to help? Just because misuse often overdoses the powerful drug, doesn't make it useless.
- Epiphany21 5y agoGiving people Fentanyl for pain management is almost as bad as bloodletting to cure a respiratory illness. It's a very dangerous substance, even in moderation. It needs to go the way of leaded gasoline for the sake of public safety. The issue is not just overdoses. It's long term physical and psychological dependencies that drive people there to begin with. A lot of addicts become addicted through prescriptions, and then they doctor shop. And in some cases it has even come out that doctors received kickbacks from the pharma companies. I'm 100% in favor of banning synthetic heroin pills. They shouldn't exist.