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Re:Canada to introduce legislation to legalize recreational ... by exprA on Thursday April 21, 2016 @04:29AM (#11540429)
How did they manage it in the 30s (or whenever depending on your nationality)? Are you absolutely certain that criminalization wasn't an overreaction to a problem that after all wasn't all that big?
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Re:Canada to introduce legislation to legalize recreational ... by neverknowsbest on Thursday April 21, 2016 @12:21PM (#11543300)
If you've got a free hour-or-so sometime this BBC documentary is pretty engaging and describes the opiate timeline regarding use and legal status: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3M1QPoeNMU
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Re:Canada to introduce legislation to legalize recreational ... by coldtea on Thursday April 21, 2016 @08:01AM (#11541358)
In fact it still isn't that big.

>An estimated 13.5 million people in the world take opioids (opium-like substances), including 9.2 million who use heroin.

That's an insignificant number compared to the global population and all the harm the BS cat/mouse game with mafia and police has caused.

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Re:Canada to introduce legislation to legalize recreational ... by bayesian_horse on Thursday April 21, 2016 @07:45AM (#11541264)
Short answer: They didn't.

Back then lives were being ruined as well. And the availability and affordability of dangerous drugs has only increased since then.

People just didn't make such a "fuss" of addiction, and especially in the case of poorer people, nobody really cared.

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Re:Canada to introduce legislation to legalize recreational ... by coldtea on Thursday April 21, 2016 @08:03AM (#11541363)
>People just didn't make such a "fuss" of addiction

So why should we make a fuss out of it today?

>and especially in the case of poorer people, nobody really cared.

Whereas now they do?

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Re:Canada to introduce legislation to legalize recreational ... by u_me_him on Friday April 22, 2016 @11:56PM (#11554091)
Is a case of "the road to hell is paved with good intentions"
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