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Some time ago, when I was a young man with right-wing persuasions, I listened to the arguments of left-wingers like John Oliver in favour of legalization. I was
by FredPret 3y ago
Some time ago, when I was a young man with right-wing persuasions, I listened to the arguments of left-wingers like John Oliver in favour of legalization. I was convinced. Let the free market sort itself out, I thought.
Boy did ever I take a sharp turn towards the political center on this in the years since. Some regulations have a very high return on investment, and controlling/banning the crap out of fentanyl is one of those.
- bsder 3y agoBecause street fentanyl is currently illegal, it has zero quality control, and people wind up dead taking doses that they didn't intend. Because it contaminates other drugs, people who don't intend to take fentanyl sometimes wind up dead from it. We would be better off if people could purchase drugs legally from places that have stringent quality control so doses could be properly controlled.
- daeros 3y agothat's what i've been saying for a long time, the problem isn't the pharamustical grade fentanyl, it's the street fentanyl thats problem, essentially because drug dealers have no quality control. Also cold comfort that the Scientist are with me. There's no drug that has ever become safer by ceding the market to criminals by way of prohibition. Every single one of them has gotten worse under such a regime. Look at Krokodil, that's the result of the inability to afford the real thing, and largely because of regulations on the chemical precursors.