I supported legalizing all drugs, then the opioid epidemic happened

Re:I supported legalizing all drugs, then the opioid epidemi... by rm_-rf_slash on Thursday April 20, 2017 @11:40AM (#14157642)

You can't just advocate the sale of marijuana and in the same post suggest soft drinks should be banned. When I'm stoned a nice cold Coca Cola really hits the spot.

Happy holidays, by the way.

In all seriousness, banning something doesn't mean that we will learn to deal with it better in the future. Imagine if we'd banned cars back when speculators thought humans would go insane if their bodies exceeded 30 miles per hour!

Taxes are a great way to deal with a problem without banning it, which usually opens a black market anyway.

After all, before Prohibition, one of if not the biggest sole contributor to the U.S. Federal Government was the booze tax that dates all the way back to Alexander Hamilton.

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Re:I supported legalizing all drugs, then the opioid epidemi... by narrowrail on Thursday April 20, 2017 @12:28PM (#14158169)

As a proponent of liberty, I agree with you. But, I have also come to see raw sugar as a poison (no matter how much it seems to hit the spot).

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Re:I supported legalizing all drugs, then the opioid epidemi... by cholantesh on Thursday April 20, 2017 @03:11PM (#14159831)

There isn't any raw sugar in coke (in the States).

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Re:I supported legalizing all drugs, then the opioid epidemi... by narrowrail on Thursday April 20, 2017 @04:22PM (#14160481)

Sure there is. They call them "Mexican Cokes" and they come in bottles (12 oz.). I used to buy them by the case at Costco for ~18.

Also, I was using 'sugar' generically, and perhaps I should've said 'sugars' (i.e. mono- and di-saccharides)[0]. Fructose counts as a sugar in my mind. Maybe the naturally occurring substances we desire should not be extracted, and the other constituents that occur alongside our desired constituent has an evolutionary reason for being there.

[0] Sucrose is glucose + fructose:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucrose

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Re:I supported legalizing all drugs, then the opioid epidemi... by cholantesh on Thursday April 20, 2017 @05:46PM (#14161213)

I was thinking of cane sugar, which is more common in Asia (and elsewhere, I guess, but not in NA).

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Re:I supported legalizing all drugs, then the opioid epidemi... by narrowrail on Thursday April 20, 2017 @10:29PM (#14162685)

Cane sugar was, second only to cotton, responsible for continuing the slave trade here in the Americas. Cane sugar is sucrose, and I had made guess based on your previous comments that you were referring to cane sugar.

Edit: I should've just written"

cane_sugar==sucrose

sucrose==glucose+fructose

corn==fructose //(subsidized feed stock for ethanol used in fuel in the US)

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