Abandoned: The human cost of neurotechnology failure

Re:Abandoned: The human cost of neurotechnology failure by greggman3 on Sunday December 18, 2022 @04:36AM (#34036240)

> drug criminalisation makes recreational drug use a lot less safe than it could be were it legal and regulated

This is debatable. Here's a legal drug that kills 3 million people a year

https://www.alcoholrehabguide.org/resources/medical-conditio...

Here's another that kills 7 million people per year

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast...

Note that I'm mostly for legalized drugs. I just have heard this data and I don't have an answer to it. My impression is I just take it on faith that less criminalization will be a net positive but I don't know that's for sure.

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Re:Abandoned: The human cost of neurotechnology failure by fragmede on Sunday December 18, 2022 @07:37AM (#34037142)

Alcohol is a terrible drug and kills you in a known fashion, but you don't buy a can of beer from the store and then die from drinking a can of bleach instead, because it's regulated and legal.

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