Bill to Legalize Marijuana and Opium Cleared for Indian Parliament (2016)

Re:Bill to Legalize Marijuana and Opium Cleared for Indian P... by jrs95 on Thursday November 16, 2017 @01:23PM (#15715121)

A higher quality and more consistent product means there's a larger window of time for getting them treatment. If the quality situation ends up like it is in the U.S. now, you end up with a much more lethal product and a huge rate of overdose deaths.

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Re:Bill to Legalize Marijuana and Opium Cleared for Indian P... by Noos on Thursday November 16, 2017 @03:13PM (#15716160)

this is assuming an overdose death is worse societally than having said user alive, unemployable, and addicted to opium or an opium substitute for the rest of their lives. I don't mean this morally...life is precious and should be saved. But I don't know how many societies could deal with a massive addict class that only exists to siphon benefits and energy.

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Re:Bill to Legalize Marijuana and Opium Cleared for Indian P... by jrs95 on Thursday November 16, 2017 @04:23PM (#15716757)

Well that's assuming that they'll just siphon benefits and energy. Most of the addicts I've known are high functioning and relatively productive -- they just spend a lot of money supporting their habit. I'd imagine this would be even easier post-legalization.

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