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> and someone tried to bring it to market today it would never fly In a regulatory domain? Perhaps not; however, we did try prohibition. It didn't go well.
by themafia 1y ago
> and someone tried to bring it to market today it would never fly
In a regulatory domain? Perhaps not; however, we did try prohibition. It didn't go well.
> Should have skull and crossbones on it.
Which didn't work. So some people go the idea to poison it. Then people learned to re-distill it to avoid the blindness it would otherwise cause.
> Makes about as much sense as huffing gasoline
Most people don't regularly drink to the kinds of excess that would make this an apt comparison.
- TrololoTroll 1y ago>however, we did try prohibition. It didn't go well ... Because it was already there. The hypothetical would imply a world where people weren't already high functioning addicts
- IAmBroom 1y agoIt also has to assume the average, or even uneducated, person couldn't whip up a reasonably good batch of the stuff over a week's time on their own, given ordinary supplies and equipment found in their own home already. But that isn't true of this particular drug.