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tayroarsmash t1_iy60mpe wrote

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You won’t. It’s a pointless fight. The war on drugs makes things worse for people all around. The problems with drugs are 95% because it’s a black market. Adulteration deaths (your fentynal deaths) wouldn’t happen in a regulated market. Violence surrounding it wouldn’t happen in a regulated market. Spread of blood born diseases would be lessened with greater access to needles. People don’t like this but the war on drugs is what makes drug use so damn dangerous.

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thevoidhearsyou t1_iy80ojm wrote

The problem is even in a regulated market people will still look for more drugs beyond what is considered safe or allowable.

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tayroarsmash t1_iy81qca wrote

I mean we haven’t eliminated OD’s here either. We never will. People’s desire to be intoxicated will always be there and the need will always be met. Education is how you address issues with drug use, not criminalization. We have people hesitant to get help because of the criminal nature of their behavior. Genuinely, what good has come from prohibition? Because it’s not currently theoretical, we’re living it out. Prohibition is currently creating a worse world to live in. I’ve got to ask you, are you planning on going and creating a heroin habit for yourself if it were attainable tomorrow? Is simple access to heroin the barrier between you and just totally being unable to control yourself or is it that you know that would be a bad idea and you wouldn’t engage in that either way? What was more effective in your life in preventing you from sinking to the depths of drug addiction education or prohibition?

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Skeletore-full-power t1_iy8x2d9 wrote

> Adulteration deaths (your fentynal deaths) wouldn’t happen in a regulated market.

Are you saying alcohol related deaths wouldn’t happen if they were legal and taxed.

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tayroarsmash t1_iy92g5f wrote

No I’m saying that the deaths from alcohol under prohibition were worse than they are currently. Alcohol was dangerous as fuck during prohibition. You had no regulation over it and as a result had no way of telling if what you were drinking was ethanol or methanol. One of those causes blindness pretty quickly.

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Letmeaddtothis t1_iya5xqb wrote

No, some people will intentionally drink themselves to death.

However, there will be a whole lot less cases of accidental overdose death.

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