Re:Colombia is considering legalizing its cocaine industry
by DanBC on Thursday December 03, 2020 @07:14PM
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Alcohol is harmful.
Illegal alcohol is more harmful.
We need to stop treating substance misuse as a criminal justice matter and start treating it as a public health problem.
Re:Colombia is considering legalizing its cocaine industry
by blub on Friday December 04, 2020 @03:20AM
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The only wide-spread health problems we ever solved as a species were solved through medication (vaccines, antibiotics, etc). Heart disease, obesity, diabetes continue to be wide spread in spite of efforts to contain them.
Meanwhile smoking has been controlled through tight regulation and negative PR.
There's nothing preventing us from treating substance abuse as both and indeed it's likely more effective.
Re:Colombia is considering legalizing its cocaine industry
by DanBC on Friday December 04, 2020 @05:51AM
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> Meanwhile smoking has been controlled through tight regulation and negative PR.
"Legalise drugs" does not mean provide them for free to anyone who asks with no controls at all on their supply or use.
smoking hasn't been controlled through "tight regulation", it's been controlled through the public health measure of price increase.
Apologies if I’ve misunderstood the intent of these comments, but —- what is the argument that connects “alcohol is more destructive” to “cannabis (and perhaps other drugs) should be legalised everywhere”? To me, without some connecting argument it seems to be a non-sequitur.