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I don't think legalizing fentanyl is a good idea at all. Look at how many people were killed by easy access to Oxycodone. It's said that one use of heroin will

I don't think legalizing fentanyl is a good idea at all. Look at how many people were killed by easy access to Oxycodone. It's said that one use of heroin will turn someone into an addict, and something like 2% of opioid addicts die per year. Legalizing drugs may make things safer per person, but it will also increase the number of users. Legalizing fentanyl would just flood the streets with something even more potent than heroin and get millions more addicted.

mysecretaccount 4y ago
There are steps that can be taken to provide addicts with legal access to their fix in a way that removes cartels from the supply chain and does not equate to "legalizing fentanyl".
- sdvsa 4y ago
  Ok. I'll bite. What are the steps?
  - Scoundreller 4y ago
    Methadone-type programs, but for other substances. Ie: go to a doctor or similar health worker, get a prescription for the thing you’re dependent on, pick up that prescription, do your thing and go on with life. Is this “giving drugs to drug addicts”? Yes.
- helloworld11 4y ago
  Or just you know, legalize fentanyl, because drug laws don't fucking work and have caused vastly more harm than the drugs they "stop"... People's bodies should be their own to use as they please so long as they don't harm others with violence. A simple notion that idiotic puritans just haven't been able to get through their heads for centuries by now and to absolutely no good effect.
voisin 4y ago
When will we learn that not legalizing things is not the same as preventing them from occurring? Usage happens today, but with impurities and a supply chain that causes its own death beyond the end users. If there were a legal fentanyl clinic down the street from you, would you use it just because it was legal? Doubtful. But someone intent on using it would get it anyways so why not get a pure form in a safe place while starving the cartels of capital?
- LEDThereBeLight 4y ago
  That’s simply not true because, generally, as cost goes down, demand goes up. It’s like expecting tobacco usage to be the same whether it’s easy or hard to get - if it’s illegal, fewer casually interested people will try it.
- mminer237 4y ago
  You can say no rational person would willingly go start a drug addiction, but people aren't always rational. People already jump through hoops to do drugs. Why do you think nobody extra would try them if was easier? People said the same thing about marijuana and inanely that legalizing it would help fewer people be addicted to smoking. Unsurprisingly though, legalization increased usage by 20%: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/962353 https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/962353 Look at the history of the opioid crisis. It really started becoming a crisis when oxycodone became easy to get a prescription for. Pill mill doctors would give out hundreds of prescriptions a night to be spread through the streets, causing millions more to be addicted. If legalizing opiates helped, Purdue Pharma should have been one of the greatest benefits to public health, no?

mysecretaccount 4y ago

There are steps that can be taken to provide addicts with legal access to their fix in a way that removes cartels from the supply chain and does not equate to "legalizing fentanyl".

sdvsa 4y ago
Ok. I'll bite. What are the steps?
- Scoundreller 4y ago
  Methadone-type programs, but for other substances. Ie: go to a doctor or similar health worker, get a prescription for the thing you’re dependent on, pick up that prescription, do your thing and go on with life. Is this “giving drugs to drug addicts”? Yes.
helloworld11 4y ago
Or just you know, legalize fentanyl, because drug laws don't fucking work and have caused vastly more harm than the drugs they "stop"... People's bodies should be their own to use as they please so long as they don't harm others with violence. A simple notion that idiotic puritans just haven't been able to get through their heads for centuries by now and to absolutely no good effect.

voisin 4y ago

When will we learn that not legalizing things is not the same as preventing them from occurring? Usage happens today, but with impurities and a supply chain that causes its own death beyond the end users. If there were a legal fentanyl clinic down the street from you, would you use it just because it was legal? Doubtful. But someone intent on using it would get it anyways so why not get a pure form in a safe place while starving the cartels of capital?

LEDThereBeLight 4y ago
That’s simply not true because, generally, as cost goes down, demand goes up. It’s like expecting tobacco usage to be the same whether it’s easy or hard to get - if it’s illegal, fewer casually interested people will try it.
mminer237 4y ago
You can say no rational person would willingly go start a drug addiction, but people aren't always rational. People already jump through hoops to do drugs. Why do you think nobody extra would try them if was easier? People said the same thing about marijuana and inanely that legalizing it would help fewer people be addicted to smoking. Unsurprisingly though, legalization increased usage by 20%: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/962353 https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/962353 Look at the history of the opioid crisis. It really started becoming a crisis when oxycodone became easy to get a prescription for. Pill mill doctors would give out hundreds of prescriptions a night to be spread through the streets, causing millions more to be addicted. If legalizing opiates helped, Purdue Pharma should have been one of the greatest benefits to public health, no?