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Where would you draw the line for “drugs” that should and shouldn’t exist with your hot patch fix?
by calmworm 3y ago
Where would you draw the line for “drugs” that should and shouldn’t exist with your hot patch fix?
- amanaplanacanal 3y agoFor most people it’s “get rid of the drugs I don’t like but keep the drugs I like.”
- rylittle 3y agoI'm pretty sure theres a lot of people who would get rid of heroin even if they know they might enjoy the experience or "like" it.
- rootusrootus 3y agoHeroin is an easy target because it is only used recreationally (in the US, at least), so we don't have any legitimate patients who'd be impacted by eliminating it.
- amanaplanacanal 3y agoMaybe. But what about the rest of the opioids? Then you get some kind of cancer where you need them. There is no simple solution here.
- rootusrootus 3y agoNot OP, but I'd use externalities to guide the decision. After all, it isn't the drug users partaking in the quiet of their home that we really care about. It's the junkies on the street making life worse for everyone else around them, the smugglers, the violence, the people dying from overdoses, etc. Of course the problem is that almost all of the drugs in question have legitimate medical uses so we can't just wave a magic wand and make them go away. I'd personally try the angle of making drug use completely non-criminal (but not the associated behavior problems that do impact other people; this is a non-trivial element), and then make dealing drugs punishable with a LOT of time.
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