Asia Sentinel Blocked in Singapore

Re:Asia Sentinel Blocked in Singapore by scheeseman486 on Saturday June 03, 2023 @01:27AM (#36173977)

Alcohol and tobacco are empirically worse than cannabis, which is just as rooted in society. The choices of what is legal and what isn't came down to class and politics, not medical evidence.

So yes? Acceptance, regulation and social safety nets are probably the way to go for a lot of drugs. The alternative is to indefinitely fight an unwinnable war, to perpetuate a cycle of death and murder seemingly oblivious that the fight itself and the consequences of a punitive system are the things taking most of those lives, not the drugs.

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Re:Asia Sentinel Blocked in Singapore by rayiner on Saturday June 03, 2023 @10:37AM (#36177046)

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Re:Asia Sentinel Blocked in Singapore by scheeseman486 on Sunday June 04, 2023 @03:05AM (#36183664)

95% of people will say a lot of things when they have a gun pointed to their head.

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Re:Asia Sentinel Blocked in Singapore by rayiner on Sunday June 04, 2023 @08:45AM (#36185194)

There is no gun to anyone’s head—in particular, tobacco use is neither illegal nor considered immoral, but people don’t smoke anyway. I know it shocks Americans to learn that people can exercise self control and refrain from vices.

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Re:Asia Sentinel Blocked in Singapore by scheeseman486 on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @11:31PM (#36222510)

I'm not an American, but Australian.

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