How a Mexican Drug Cartel Makes Its Billions

Re:How a Mexican Drug Cartel Makes Its Billions by ippisl on Friday June 15, 2012 @05:27PM (#4118803)

I think we should do even more: develop new drugs(and processes) with less side effects. Drugs(and processes) that let you escape reality when you want, but still enable you to manage life reasonably well and be relatively healthy.

It's clear that the need or desire to escape reality won't change anytime soon. Instead of ignoring and fighting this reality, we should try to find constructive solutions.

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Re:How a Mexican Drug Cartel Makes Its Billions by Symmetry on Saturday June 16, 2012 @10:58AM (#4120784)

I think that merely by using objective scales to determine what to ban, like this[1], we would accomplish the same thing. We already have safe opioids and amphetamines from medical research. If those were legal over the counter but Heroin and Meth weren't I expect more people would use them instead.

[1]http://drugwarfacts.org/cms/?q=node/28

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Re:How a Mexican Drug Cartel Makes Its Billions by r0s on Friday June 15, 2012 @08:10PM (#4119383)

Simply regulating dosage and purity would be a huge safety improvement.

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Re:How a Mexican Drug Cartel Makes Its Billions by pacala on Saturday June 16, 2012 @04:26PM (#4121515)

Here's an unpopular view: Let's work together to make reality less dreary such that you don't have an urge to escape reality.

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Re:How a Mexican Drug Cartel Makes Its Billions by MrScruff on Sunday June 17, 2012 @06:15AM (#4122632)

You're going to have to work pretty hard to make reality not look a bit dreary compared to the average LSD trip...

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