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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 tha
by 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 agoThat’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 agoYou 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?