That's quite some wall of one insane libertarian take after another that it's impossible to keep up. Regulating drugs isn't the same thing as turning into a pol

That's quite some wall of one insane libertarian take after another that it's impossible to keep up. Regulating drugs isn't the same thing as turning into a police state. > The opioid epidemic is not a great example You think the issue of regulating heroin and fentanyl is comparable to alcohol prohibition, but not the opioid epidemic? > The problem blew up when authorities started cracking down on those prescriptions The problem blew up when pharmaceutical companies deceitfully advertised addictive pain killers as safe and aggressively prescribed them to even those who didn't need it. It would've been prevented if the government adequately stepped in before it happened. It was already too late when authorities started cracking down, and to frame that time as the starting point of the problem is blatantly disingenuous. > It definitely wasn’t the doing of ”humane and sensible” policies! It's you who's framing the deregulation of OxyContin, heroin, and fentanyl as "humane and sensible," not me. > So you see, it is actually a choice between legalization of all drugs or violence and corruption. No, you haven't presented a single supporting argument that stands the test of logic and common sense. > The system can only regulate drugs when they are legal. What kind of logic is that? The only way to regulate something is to not regulate? What kind of mind games are you playing here? > Illegal drugs combined with enforcement of prohibition pits producers, traffickers, dealers and users against the police and ultimately the army, which are usually the only groups of people who have a state-sanctioned mandate to use violence against other people. Just because the US tries to solve every social issue with over-policing, police militarization, and mass incarceration doesn't mean that it's the only solution. > Just add pervasive income inequality, throw in some general lack of future prospects mixed with widely publicized lies about the billionaire class being entirely self-made through hard work, and baby, you got a stew going, and the people getting thrown in the hot water are already boiling over. Yes, and you think having more would-be Sacklers selling highly addictive drugs without anyone to stop them is a solution to that? Give us a break. Libertarianism doesn't stop billionaires and their exploitation of everyone else.