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and i agree - why shouldn't these drugs be legalized? Regulate their sale, just like alcohol. Stop the drug cartels from making profit, and they will disappear.

After all, client's neurotransmitters are the same.

>>chii+(OP)
recommend googling 'opioid epidemic' in which people got addicted to perfectly legal painkillers they were prescribed. yeah cartels didn't profit (at first, anyway). neither did society.

>>baq+t
The pharmaceutical cartels profited - and hospitals, doctors, and insurance companies as well, if not quite as dramatically.

>>chii+(OP)
Honestly it should really be equalized the other way around: alcohol really shouldn’t be as easily available as it is today, perhaps even illegal.

Of course that won’t happen, it’s too ingrained in society. But it really is a scourge.

And I say this as someone who enjoys my beverages responsibly.

Legalizing heroin or the like will destroy parts of our society of nothing else changes.

>>nkrisc+K7
It was already tried in the US. The agreed upon results were that humans want alcohol and the downstream effects made society worse e.g. increase in alcohol consumption, empowering organized crime and corrupting the police.

>>pfarre+oC
I know. That’s why I’m not arguing that we actually try again. Plus I do enjoy drinking beer and other alcohol. But not all drugs are equal.

Many people can responsibly enjoy alcohol. Some can’t. But there are some drugs that are so effective it would be difficult for any human to responsibly use for any extended period of time. It becomes less about philosophy and more about physiology.

>>pfarre+oC
Yeah opium was also easily available in China once and it played a large part in their lost century.