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Re:Is There a Case for Legalizing Heroin? by scaramanga on Saturday May 01, 2021 @08:42AM (#27005810)
The question here is whether drug prohibition is a victimless crime. And it's clearly not.

Besides, many _users_ of heroin are medicinal users who do not have victims (elderly patients on the NHS for example). You are conflating drug use with problematic drug use and concluding that problematic drug use is problematic, which is a tautology.

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Re:Is There a Case for Legalizing Heroin? by solipsism on Saturday May 01, 2021 @03:56PM (#27009280)
You are conflating drug use with problematic drug use

Is this like conflating speeding with problematic speeding? Some things are worth making illegal because of their potential effect on society.

That said.. in what way did I conflate those things? I specifically said Now I'm not saying that should be used to curtail the freedom of non-parents. Which clearly leaves open the possibility of carving out reasonable uses of a drug.

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