> How does legalizing manufacturing of a killer substance stop ODs?

It’s not legalizing it that could potentially help with ODs but regulating it. It’s the difference between injecting a random-assumed-to-be-heroin substance dissolved in tap water on a heated spoon and injecting a known 10mg/mL vial of heroin.

And that 10mg/ml of heroin can and will kill heroin users. Fentanyl has made the situation worse but heroin users do in fact kill themselves frequently by ODing.

I don’t disagree, but legalization without quality control is almost certainly worse than legalization with QC.

Legal weed in Canada has THC % numbers on it and it makes dosing so much simpler. While the impact of too much THC is nowhere near as bad as opiates, it’s quite nice being able to look at a bag and pretty accurately predict how much to have to get a desired effect.

Edit: same with alcohol. It’s really nice to be able to look at a 355mL can of beer and know that drinking it isn’t going to have the same effect as a 355mL bottle of vodka.

And peoole kill themselves - frequently - with alcohol.

So are you suggesting that problem would be better or worse without quality control and labelling?