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Originally Posted by Scornfire
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
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I genuinely feel bad for anyone who’s lost loved ones for such things, for starters. I personally haven’t so I’m talking from the ivory tower in this case. I do know the basics of both and comparing to weed isn’t right as hard drugs have hard addictive qualities right from the start. Legalizing it gives the false impression it’s relatively safe as it’s government sanctioned. It’s not about scaring people but this is the reality that creating addicts by creating a false sense of safe, os simply a bad idea. I’m in my late 30s so I’m not completely out of it here. I just believe state sponsoring these things allows people who otherwise wouldn’t try it to try it and with the addictive qualities of these specific classes it opens up way more negative downstream effects. There has to be other ways of helping people with these addictions than legalizing. Psychedelics legalizing doesn’t seem like a bad idea depending on what it is.