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Re:Once hailed for decriminalizing drugs, Portugal is now ha... by mike4ty4 on Saturday July 08, 2023 @03:39PM (#36647981)
What if we make treatment basically consist of some sort of genetic or other biotechnological intervention that essentially tweaks the vulnerability? Can't be worse than a jail + thousands of never-terminating under any circumstance collateral penalties.
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Re:Once hailed for decriminalizing drugs, Portugal is now ha... by heresie-dabord on Saturday July 08, 2023 @06:02PM (#36649224)
Someone elsewhere in this HN discussion compared the support of people destroying themselves with drugs to being like providing hospice (palliative) care.

If we legalised all drugs, we would need to protect our communities, not abandon our communities to people destroying themselves.

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