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You can't overdose on coffee, but a lot of people will happily say that they are addicted. Yet it causes no greater societal issues, because it is legal.

• anon291 4y ago
  Opioids have a long history of causing societal issues. That is my point. Society has a long history, and AFAICT, the social impact is positive (more productivity).
• MandieD 4y ago
  It's also not terribly psychoactive, doesn't make you drive unsafely, and can't permanently ruin your brain or change your personality, unlike that other addictive and legal, but often harmful substance that causes plenty of societal issues: alcohol. And I say this as someone who really likes wine and would drink it pretty much every day, if it weren't for that whole "can permanently ruin your brain" business.
• ajmurmann 4y ago
  The new meth is as total disaster that can render a consumer indistinguishable from a schizophrenic for up to a year. Rehab for that duration is prohibitively expensive and you cannot tell me that turning yourself into a virtual schizophrenic is an option we need in our society. I'm all for legal marijuana, mushrooms, LSD, maybe even cocaine. But this shit has gotta go! Source: https://www.econtalk.org/sam-quinones-on-meth-fentanyl-and-the-least-of-us/ https://www.econtalk.org/sam-quinones-on-meth-fentanyl-and-t...
• lazide 4y ago
  Caffeine is very different from opiates.