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Re:Drug firms poured 780M painkillers into WV amid rise of o... by chillwaves on Monday December 19, 2016 @09:32AM (#13211575)
> Either the government should have the power to ban drugs or it shouldn't

Surely there is middle ground. A drug can be regulated but not banned. The way a drug is prescribed could be regulated. This needs to happen with opiates. That doesn't mean they should be banned but the addiction potential is very serious for these drugs (and vastly underestimated when they first entered the market).

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Re:Drug firms poured 780M painkillers into WV amid rise of o... by snrplfth on Monday December 19, 2016 @11:15AM (#13212327)
"Regulated but not banned" is not a middle ground between "banned or not". It is "not banned". I am not saying that you can't have regulations on a drug, I am saying that if you make a drug entirely illegal, and it is in sufficiently high demand, then you will have drug-war-type effects.
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