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Re:Prohibition was primarily the work of one pressure group by cheald on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @12:23AM (#10417422)
Replace "heroin" with "oxycotin" or "valium". We already sanction the sale of drugs with potentially nasty addictive effects to the "uneducated and influenecable". And while prescription drug abuse is certainly a social problem, I'm going to suggest that the sum of the ills surrounding it don't begin to scratch the sum of the ills wrought by the drug war.
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Re:Prohibition was primarily the work of one pressure group by Houshalter on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @01:01AM (#10417506)
As far as I know heroin is prescribable like those other drugs, and no one is arguing that it shouldn't be.
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