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Originally Posted by giallo
You're advocating a death sentence for many by enforcing a cold turkey program, Vin. The US spend over a trillion dollars on that war, and it didn't amount to anything at all. The private prison industry boomed. That's about it.
If someone wants to do drugs until they die, well, I guess that's their decision - it is a free country after all, but in order for the impact of that decision to lessen for the rest of us, the government has to get involved. Why we still allow the black market to regulate the drug supply in 2021 is beyond me. An unregulated, potentially dangerous product and high prices all have a direct effect on society, whether they do a drug or not.
Regulate it, price it accordingly, and use the tax dollars to start to fund really solutions to the issues that create an addictive individual. Is it going to be weird to be able to by opioids from an online store.....yeah, it will be for a bit, but if it keeps people from ODing from an unreliable product, it's affordable enough so you don't have to worry about random addicts stealing your copper wire for a fix, and we start to see properly-funded hospitals and housing to help those that truly need it, then it's a pretty good trade off.
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Oh really? Death sentence? On the contrary, by not doing that we are meting out death sentences to them already, not to mention the drain in public dollars.
500 deaths so far in 2021:
https://globalnews.ca/news/7819752/bc-overdose-numbers-march-2021/
So 500 people died this year because they went cold turkey? Nope, not at all. They could still be alive if they actually did. Agreeing to the status quo is like letting users die on the streets.
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