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Re:Lethal Opiates Delivered by Mail from China, Killing Addi... by kgwgk on Saturday March 11, 2017 @06:46PM (#13847946)
If you make drugs legal, allowing for reliable, safe, and inexpensive access many more people will become addicts. What's the right trade-off between making the burden from addiction lighter for current addicts and protecting current non-addicts from addiction?
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Re:Lethal Opiates Delivered by Mail from China, Killing Addi... by WalterBright on Saturday March 11, 2017 @07:08PM (#13848054)
> many more people will become addicts

The American experiment with Prohibition suggests otherwise.

It implies that people are not using because it is illegal. Is that true for you? It isn't true for me, nor anyone I know.

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Re:Lethal Opiates Delivered by Mail from China, Killing Addi... by kgwgk on Saturday March 11, 2017 @08:04PM (#13848264)
You said the fact that it is illegal makes access unreliable, unsafe and expensive. If find it hard to believe that reversing that situation would not increase usage at all!
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Re:Lethal Opiates Delivered by Mail from China, Killing Addi... by WalterBright on Saturday March 11, 2017 @09:10PM (#13848497)
It is indeed counterintuitive.

For example, I voted in favor of marijuana legalization in Washington State. It's now legal. I didn't smoke weed before legalization, nor after. I simply have no desire for it. I don't know anyone who took up weed because it is now legal.

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