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How do you feel that would lead to less deaths given that the deaths from fent are often (but not always) from an intentional dose of fent? The research here a
by vorpalhex 4y ago
How do you feel that would lead to less deaths given that the deaths from fent are often (but not always) from an intentional dose of fent?
The research here also does not support broad legalization:
+ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24456133/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24456133/
+ https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2019/06/medical-marijuana-does-not-reduce-opioid-deaths.html https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2019/06/medical-marij...
Of special note is that opiod deaths increased as legal prescribed opiods were given more freely.
- paganel 4y agoThis recent HN thread [1] is also related to this issue (the post comments on this [2] Economist article) [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33845128 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33845128 [2] https://archive.ph/fzBoE https://archive.ph/fzBoE
- Joker_vD 4y agoOne marvels as to why e.g. Russia or China don't covertly push funds and efforts into drug legalization in the US if that would widely harm its population and weaken it as a whole. But to the best of my knowledge, they apparently don't, so this is a (somewhat weak) argument in favour of legalization.
- stephen_g 4y agoWhy do you think “Russia or China” would actually care in any way to want to harm random Americans?
- tstrimple 4y agoI don't necessarily subscribe to this belief, but they wouldn't care about the random individuals but rather the societal level impacts of such a policy should they think it would be disruptive.
- mitchdoogle 4y agoBecause they are interested in destabilizing the country in order to make themselves more powerful on a global scale. Although I think they are doing much better in that front by manufacturing all of our stuff (china anyway)