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Originally Posted by Sliver
I don't get the hesitation about the government handing out drugs. If it's cheaper than using healthcare and emergency services to deal with ODs, and the drugs are safer so there are fewer ODs in the first place, where's your concern?
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It remains to be seen if it will result in fewer ODs. If it does, great. But if it just results in a net increase in usage, and ODs don’t go down, then we’ll need to rethink the plan.
These things don’t always turn out the way well-intentioned, law-abiding types expect. Remember when pot was being legalized, and a lot of people on this forum ridiculed the notion that the black market and local dealers would endure once people could readily buy legal pot in stores? And yet here we are three years later, and legal sales have only recently crept past the amount bought from Terry.
Two lessons from that.
A lot of people who use drugs want to get as high as possible, and will always choose a more potent over a less potent option.
The illegal drug trade is extraordinarily efficient, able to get product to buyers more readily than any commercial or government-run outlet.