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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Here's a question: suppose a multinational pharma company put a few billion into R&D'ing some recreational drugs that provided an awesome high, but were far, far safer than the current crop of street drugs. No more dangerous or addictive than alcohol, for example - which isn't that high a bar to clear. This is then permitted to be sold in a regulated fashion. The pharma company makes billions, the user is at least better off than they are now and generally able to get a fix without significant risk of death and incarceration (which has to be worth a decent bit to a consumer), and the government gets some tax revenue a la cigarettes.
What's the end result here?
I'm not a chemist, I have no idea if this is even feasible, but in theory it seems to me that it could be accomplished with some of the world's better biochemists working on it, doesn't it?
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It's an existential question, obviously.