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Re:The US government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition (2010) by wildmusings on Sunday September 04, 2016 @12:16PM (#12425118)
>PS: this, of course, not getting into the obvious immorality of lacing a drug to harm addicts. Only a mentally sick society could think otherwise in 2016.

It's not to harm addicts. It's to discourage recreational use in the first place. If you're prescribed Vicodin and are warned about the harmful effects of taking more than the prescribed amount, you are less likely to act on the "what the hell, might as well pop 3 or 4 and get a buzz" thought that pretty much anyone prescribed these drugs could reasonably have at some point. So you never start on the path to becoming a self-destructive addict.

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Re:The US government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition (2010) by TelmoMenezes on Sunday September 04, 2016 @12:55PM (#12425364)
> It's not to harm addicts. It's to discourage recreational use in the first place.

Yes, discourage recreational use of some specific highly-addictive drugs and not others, at the expense of providing some addicts with a slow agonizing death. As I said, sick.

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