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one of the issues with drug prohibition is that it throws the baby out with the bathwater and consigns the man on the street to whatever dealers think will sell
by permo-w 2y ago
one of the issues with drug prohibition is that it throws the baby out with the bathwater and consigns the man on the street to whatever dealers think will sell the most effectively: i.e. whatever is strongest without killing people or drastically fucking them up.
when drugs are legal people get more choice and - as shown with tobacco - people tend to favour weaker options. if cocaine were legal, people would likely be taking something closer to what you get from chewing the leaves. this could even just be regulated to be the case