CVS Health Quits U.S. Chamber Over Stance on Smoking

Re:CVS Health Quits U.S. Chamber Over Stance on Smoking by wpietri on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @01:37AM (#9849986)

Personally, my main opposition is to the industrial-scale production and sale of recreational drugs, because addiction and capitalism are a terrible combination.

As an example, the park nearest my house has a guy who comes by occasionally on some busy weekends to sell pot truffles. I'm sure he makes a modest living, but I have no worry about people getting dangerously hooked. If we were to let Coca Cola put the cocaine back in, though? Or to let 7-11 sell hash and crack, with prominent placards outside and a billion-dollar ad budget? No thanks.

My other half-serious plan is for licensing. Imagine that to be able to legally buy and take LSD, you have to take a 12-week class with practical exams where you drop acid with your instructor. I can think of no better way to remove the appealing mystique of drugs than to make kids turn up after school every Wednesday for a semester and have some teacher drone at them about mechanisms of action and key safety considerations.

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Re:CVS Health Quits U.S. Chamber Over Stance on Smoking by baddox on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @02:25AM (#9850098)

> addiction and capitalism are a terrible combination.

Have we ever seen that play out for hard drugs, when capitalism is also allowed to work on treatment and rehab?

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Re:CVS Health Quits U.S. Chamber Over Stance on Smoking by coldpie on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @09:22AM (#9851319)

Alcohol would be the obvious example of a relatively unregulated, addictive hard drug with treatment centers.

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Re:CVS Health Quits U.S. Chamber Over Stance on Smoking by wpietri on Thursday July 09, 2015 @02:58PM (#9859985)

Might as well form a company that does both. Then you can make money from causing the problem and from solving it. It'd be the broken window fallacy on an industrial scale.

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