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Comment by sfn42

3 days ago

I've been saying the same thing for years. Everything should be legal, prohibition just causes more problems. We learned this lesson with alcohol already.

Making it legal we could have things sold over the counter in pharmacies with proper age checks, we could even require further checks like before you can purchase heroin you need to go through a process where it is explained how it works, what a reasonable dose is, what side effects are, how addictive it is etc.

Same with other stuff. Most drugs are quite safe and harmless if done by people who know what they're doing. Of course self destructive people and morons would still harm themselves but honestly I'm not too worried about that. They will always find ways to harm themselves.

At least drug users wouldn't be funding cartels and warlords etc.

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jeffhuys  3 days ago

Go to the QuittingKratom subreddit and see for yourself how a legal opioid-like substance destroys lives.

  • mattmaroon  3 days ago

    Sure. Alcohol does too. We made it illegal, it only worsened problems.

    It’s a balance sheet and you can’t just look at the debits and not the credits.

  • sfn42  3 days ago

    I already addressed this. Drugs are currently illegal and yet millions of people are destroying their lives with drugs right now. So clearly, prohibition does not solve this problem. I could buy heroin right now, on a a Sunday when most stores are closed in my country, within an hour. The only difference is I wouldn't know if it was cut with fentanyl and other adulterants, they wouldn't care about selling to youth, etc.

    • _DeadFred_  2 days ago

      I used to think like this. But lets take a different addictive habit that recently became legal. People were able to gamble pre-legalization, but hardly anyone I knew was addicted to illegal sports betting. Now that it is legal, I would say large amount of friends show very addicted looking behavior around it.

      There is a reason why heroine used to be sold as cough syrup and over time became illegal. I know we want to say the war on drugs was all a war on minorities (and with pot it was), but have you looked into the history of people turning into junkies?