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Re:Do Psychedelic Drug Laws Violate Human Rights? by visarga on Monday March 07, 2016 @04:40PM (#11241928)
If you get sick and die of drug use you don't get to work as much and buy as much stuff from the companies, and that hurts the bottom line.
Re:Do Psychedelic Drug Laws Violate Human Rights? by baddox on Monday March 07, 2016 @04:41PM (#11241942)
Either you're being serious, in which case I find the argument fairly ludicrous, or you're sarcastically pointing out some ludicrous logical consequences of a certain framework of "rights."
Re:Do Psychedelic Drug Laws Violate Human Rights? by LesZedCB on Monday March 07, 2016 @04:48PM (#11242002)
I think it's just a criticism that health often are made with corporate interests in mind (see: the tobacco industry), which don't care about people's wellbeing, but rather about stock valuation.
Re:Do Psychedelic Drug Laws Violate Human Rights? by mirimir on Monday March 07, 2016 @04:51PM (#11242029)
In the early 1900s, the Ford Motor Company did home visits with workers' wives. They offered nutritional advice, and coached women to discourage their husbands from drinking. Why? Higher productivity, of course. Ford and other corporations supported Prohibition, for the same reason. Unions were generally against Prohibition, as a human rights issue (not in those words, of course).