German police take down 'world's largest darknet marketplace'

Re:German police take down 'world's largest darknet marketpl... by gameswithgo on Thursday January 14, 2021 @08:02AM (#25775818)

I would suggest that it is possible that some drugs are worse than others. That perhaps caffeine should be freely available but meth should be regulated or outlawed, for instance.

I do not KNOW this to be the correct I am simply asking you to consider that it could be the case that some drugs are more dangerous to people/society than others.

I do however agree that alcohol is likely extremely bad for people/societies but its sort of a cat that can't be put back in the bag as the USA showed. It escaped thousands of years ago.

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Re:German police take down 'world's largest darknet marketpl... by hrktb on Thursday January 14, 2021 @08:15AM (#25775912)

Education and supervised access can strike a good balance.

Not really a recreational drug, but for instance paracetamol is mostly free of access while having a potential for severe damage on overuse, and it kinda works thanks to having someone hand over the goods with a kind warning (and not being able to buy it willy-nilly at night when you're drunk for instance)

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Re:German police take down 'world's largest darknet marketpl... by MivLives on Thursday January 14, 2021 @01:12PM (#25779857)

I think one of the problems with banning alcohol is that it's too easy to make. Synthing LSD is hard. Fermentation can happen accidentally.

When you look at something like Meth, you may not realize it's a schedule 2 drug in the US (so are cocaine, and pcp). While weed is a schedule 1.

We really need to look at how this scheduling works, and consider lowering the bar for certain substances, and raising it for other.

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Re:German police take down 'world's largest darknet marketpl... by driverdan on Thursday January 14, 2021 @08:28AM (#25776031)

> meth should be regulated or outlawed

In the US methamphetamines are already available legally as Desoxyn.

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Re:German police take down 'world's largest darknet marketpl... by giantg2 on Thursday January 14, 2021 @08:10AM (#25775876)

Not to mention alcohol is extremely easy to manufacture from normal household products.

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