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Originally Posted by fleury
I'm not on the side of legalizing for the sake of government making a buck or creating a safe environment for things. Cocaine and Heroin and such have very addictive qualities that create far reaching issues relating to addiction. These are the types of things that should be weeded out, not legitimized through legalization. At least that's my take.
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Praytell, how do you think it will *ever* be weeded out? I'm in my late 20s now, I can't name a single personal acquaintance out of hundreds from school/work/familial relations offhand who I can say for sure has never experimented with several currently illegal drugs. Access has only grown in the information age, and with the weed sector being taken away from many dealers, they've made marketing and normalizing the more potent drugs a priority. I don't know what exactly making it illegal accomplishes in peoples minds, but they and you are absolutely delusional if you think it fetters access in any shape or manner. It's ####ing everywhere.
The bull#### scare tactics don't and won't ever work, if you want to stop these tragic unintentional overdoses you need to take the market away from the street dealers, educate people with the actual ####ing truth about these substances, what they do and the potential harm they can cause your body. And above all, regulate their production and sale. Normal people aren't going to start ripping lines at work just because it's made legal (or are we living back in 2017 where everyone was suddenly going to be high all the time once weed was legalized, oh the horrroorrrr). People with addiction problems aren't going to suddenly use more than they otherwise would have, but at least they won't be taking actual ####ing poison, and better education and rehabilitation programs can and should be funded with the proceeds of these sales.
-Signed a guy who has lost 5 friends to fentanyl