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Re:Norway to increase minimum age limit on social media to 1... by stouset on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @11:25PM (#41931606)
Out of curiosity, was the money saved from decriminalization reallocated into addiction treatment?
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Re:Norway to increase minimum age limit on social media to 1... by vintermann on Thursday October 24, 2024 @03:49AM (#41933095)
Bold to assume there was any money saved.

But either way, people underestimate how expensive addiction treatment is, and overestimate how effective it is. Prohibition of alcohol, or rather the teetotaller movement, came because they realized society had a problem it couldn't individualize and pay itself out of.

We still haven't, but for a good 80 years we've had enough money to hide the problem.

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