Nice to see a bit of progress on this issue.

  • Bassman27@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Drugs are already difficult to get for the average person. I can’t just walk to my corner shop and buy some crack.

    If people want something enough they will find it. All the war on drugs does is hand the money straight to criminals when I could be taxed to provide services who are struggling with addiction.

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      1 year ago

      You can absolutely go to a corner store and buy alcohol. It’s not a coincidence that it kills 3 million people per year worldwide.

      Making drugs more accessible will increase consumption, that said it might reduce the negative effects for the consumers. If we allow the sell of drugs we should do everything we can to avoid the current situation with alcohol.

      Make the packaging ugly, make people understand that they are consuming something that will at best reduce their life expectancy at worst kill them and generally reduce he quality of their lives.