Re:Voters rejecting the war on drugs is a win for public health
by thatcat on Saturday November 07, 2020 @02:03PM
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Drugs are already highly available. The availability of legal drugs would result in reduced medical complications due to increased regulation on supply side. Caffeine, etc has some small statistical probability of triggering a heart issues which is the most common cause of death - from a nationalized health cost perspective this is not negligible. If you consider quality of life as the metric rather than death then low nutrition food is probably worse than caffeine, etc.
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Re:Voters rejecting the war on drugs is a win for public health
by bosie on Saturday November 07, 2020 @04:45PM
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> Drugs are already highly available.
not sure i follow, what is your definition of highly available? if cocaine is highly available, how do you classify nicotine and/or alcohol?
> some small statistical probability of triggering a heart issues which is the most common cause of death - from a nationalized health cost perspective this is not negligible.
do you have a link to a writeup of sorts showing the damage on the national cost perspective (don't even care if it is health or any other associated cost). it just seems 'some small statistical probability' and 'not negligible' is borderline orthogonal. would be interesting if that is already non-negligible how much worse the real offenders are.