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Re:2021 Could See over 100k Drug Overdose Deaths in America by otabdeveloper4 on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @03:20AM (#28613857)
Yes, once you understand that drug dealing is an economic crime and works as an MLM scheme. Go after the distribution channels and make sure the cost of doing business is high enough so the MLM pyramid collapses.

Lots of countries have won the "war on drugs", it's not rocket science.

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Re:2021 Could See over 100k Drug Overdose Deaths in America by tayo42 on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @04:05AM (#28614069)
It's not an mlm scheme. It's people delivering a product where there is demand for it. The only countries that have limited drug use are the ones with excessive penalties, laws that are extremely unpopular in pretty much all of the western world. Another poster in this thread also high lights some of the issues with those laws.

Your also making the assumption that drug use it self is a problem that needs to be solved. But it's not, lack of access to clean drugs and lack of support system for people with issues is the problem to solve.

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Re:2021 Could See over 100k Drug Overdose Deaths in America by otabdeveloper4 on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @06:36AM (#28614832)
> It's not an mlm scheme.

It absolutely is. Drug addicts finance their habit by selling to other addicts, and (crucially) recruiting new users.

> Your also making the assumption that drug use it self is a problem that needs to be solved.

I'm pretty sure addiction is a problem that needs to be solved by any metric.

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Re:2021 Could See over 100k Drug Overdose Deaths in America by tayo42 on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @12:16PM (#28618165)
Where did you get this idea from? Do you use drugs?
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