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Re:CVS ditches common cold meds after FDA advisers say they'... by phpisthebest on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @07:02AM (#38011490)
Over-criminalization of society, and the fall out from the "war on drugs" has ruined far far far far far more lives then illegal drug abuse ever could or would

That is with out getting into the debate on if it is even ethical for a government to regulation what a person consumes, even if you believe it is the current method of criminalization and prohibition is not effective in the stated goal of reducing drug use/abuse, a lesson we should have learned as a society with the passage of the 18th amendment and its repeal the 21st amendment

Of course that is not the real goal but .....

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Re:CVS ditches common cold meds after FDA advisers say they'... by flashback2199 on Friday October 27, 2023 @03:43AM (#38035772)
Ah yes, the old criminalization doesn't reduce usage misconception. Prohibition reduced usage of alcohol and is not why it failed. Prohibition failed for all of the other problems prohibition caused. Usage of alcohol declined, by quite a bit actually.
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