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Re:Illegal drugs: The wars don’t work by aquadrop on Friday May 01, 2015 @08:55AM (#9470941)
I don't know, making hard drugs easily available in the country with large number of people living in poverty could end up not too good... I think we should dig history more on that, China and opium comes to mind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_opium_in_China

I agree that war on drugs can't be won because of economical reasons, though.

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Re:Illegal drugs: The wars don’t work by Nursie on Friday May 01, 2015 @10:00AM (#9471278)
Perhaps not making (very) addictive drugs easily and cheaply available to the general population, but making them easily available to registered addicts, who can get some counselling but also be provided a cheap/free fix so they don't need to steal to get more.

The cost to society would be far less.

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