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This logic makes “date rape” drugs the most dangerous of all. But they’re not treated like that, are they? Possession of such is almost certainly probable cause
by ttyprintk 4y ago
This logic makes “date rape” drugs the most dangerous of all. But they’re not treated like that, are they? Possession of such is almost certainly probable cause to commit kidnapping, sexual assault, or conspiracy to lure people into those. Yet people sentenced to life for drug trafficking would have been better off selling the actual assault drug.
- johtso 4y agoI'm not sure if even that's such a straightforward argument to make. I've recently been looking into buying some reagents for fungal microscopy, and supposedly Melzer's reagent is awkward to get hold of (particularly in the USA?) because chloral hydrate is a "date rape drug". Another chemical branded as a date rape drug is GHB, but it is also popular as a recreational drug. Again, not something you can say possession of implies some intention to commit rape.
- arbitrary_name 4y agoI believe GHB is also one of the few known drugs that can treat narcolepsy, and is therefore prescription only in the US.
- eru 4y agoAlso note that alcohol is the most common 'date rape' drug.
- vintermann 4y agoSpecialized date rape drugs are largely a fiction. It's just regular recreational drugs used in an especially evil way, and the vast majority that regular recreational drug is just alcohol. It's also probably a regular event that young people experience blackout for the first time, haven't been taught about blackout, and assume they must have been fed something more sinister than alcohol. Alcohol is treated much better than its danger would suggest, for cultural reasons (that most people, use it recreationally, and often in high prestige contexts). If you want more restrictions on alcohol, especially restrictions on profiting from it, I'm all on your side. But I think it's a bad argument to be nicer to importers of novel drug analogs.