The line I hear from politicians, time after time, is that legalization (or its lesser cousin, a safe supply) is no silver bullet. And that's true! But it's a

The line I hear from politicians, time after time, is that legalization (or its lesser cousin, a safe supply) is no silver bullet. And that's true! But it's also very frustrating that they apparently won't consider any option that isn't a silver bullet which literally cannot exist. An awful truth is that opioid addiction is an escalator to hell. Fentanyl-naive users can die if they try the stuff. On the other hand, people who have used fentanyl (and survived) have extraordinary tolerance to the stuff such that mere heroin feels like water in their veins. Less-lethal alternatives often aren't even attractive to experienced users, so we can't even just kill the fentanyl market by supplying clean heroin.