Colombia is considering legalizing its cocaine industry

Re:Colombia is considering legalizing its cocaine industry by TuringNYC on Thursday December 03, 2020 @12:50PM (#25291954)

Without arguing about what is worse, i think it is important to look at the stats of Alcohol damage in the US for example: https://www.cdc.gov/transportationsafety/impaired_driving/im...

In 2016, 10,497 people died in alcohol-impaired driving crashes, accounting for 28% of all traffic-related deaths in the United States.1

Of the 1,233 traffic deaths among children ages 0 to 14 years in 2016, 214 (17%) involved an alcohol-impaired driver.1

The victims can be total strangers, on the road for example. Also, this above citation is just regarding traffic accidents, there are of course other impacts.

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Re:Colombia is considering legalizing its cocaine industry by est31 on Thursday December 03, 2020 @12:56PM (#25292049)

Alcohol consumption is legal though. If you made hard drugs legal as well, likely consumption would increase, and thus the ill effects they cause.

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Re:Colombia is considering legalizing its cocaine industry by DanBC on Thursday December 03, 2020 @03:30PM (#25294344)

In places like Portugal consumption decreased.

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Re:Colombia is considering legalizing its cocaine industry by varjag on Thursday December 03, 2020 @12:57PM (#25292057)

Alcohol is entirely legal though and is in ubiquitous use. Not sure it's a good argument for hard drugs legalization.

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