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Re:France rejects backdoor mandate by makeitdouble on Friday March 21, 2025 @10:17PM (#43442674)
> Why don't we just get in on the drug trade ourselves, undercut the dealers

That was tobacco, but they blew it by never going for alternatives nor providing healthier/better products. With the pharma knowledge we have now, we surely could have developed a legally acceptable drug with few enough downsides.

Otherwise, they are of course getting in on the drug trade, just not under the framework we'd want to:

https://www.brut.media/fr/articles/cocaine-11-policiers-juge...

Re:France rejects backdoor mandate by cship2 on Saturday March 22, 2025 @02:41AM (#43444004)
But once it is legal, they can't use it to deal weapons anymore

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_affair