Study Shows Selling Tested Drugs Saves Lives

A lot of people who are against drug use want them to be illegal and dangerous to use. Someone overdosing from buying drugs illegally is a preferable outcome for them because they think it will discourage people from buying illegal drugs.

They want the drugs to be both illegal and dangerous.

In reality making them legal and regulated decreases use and is safer for those that do, which doesn't work for people who think suffering is the goal.

It also makes it easier for people to seek help, since they’re not worrying about jail time for even asking.
- Remember when pot was decriminalized and everything fell into bedlam and chaos just like we were warned about for 50 years.
It's horrible circular logic.
Q: why is the drug illegal?
A: because it's dangerous.
Q: why is it dangerous?
A: because it's illegal.
- Q: why is it dangerous?
  A: because it’s illegal.
  Plenty of street drugs are addictive and dangerous even in their pure form. See for example the opiate crisis where many people started their addiction with pharmacologically pure prescription opiates.

Hmm, a guaranteed pure version of a drug that people will take anyway, in precisely known quantities, whilst raising revenue for the government (and forcing most drug dealers to change jobs)?

What a great idea. Watch it take off almost nowhere.

Yup, that almost makes too much sense to implement.

This is known for a long time, but the mindset ofntoo many is these people do not deserve to live, if they do or are something deviating from norms. It is about rare illnesses, neurodivergence and lifestyle choices and unfortunately everywhere.

That mindset comes from somewhere. Drug addicts make for an easy, politically expedient target. It doesn't just happen, and fighting that mindset means calling out the people creating scapegoats.

Here's the Canadian solution: how about we just not enforce existing drug laws, but also not spend money on safe supply or treatment.

That way all the crime happens where poor people live, and rich people can just pay less taxes! Win-win!

I'd like to see stats on how many samples tested positive for fentanyl and other deadly chemicals.

No shit fucking morons. Grow up. I have to watch these traps and killers profit off fiends all while useless cops watch them while the whole thing goes down. Fuck America all the way to hell and deeper.

This is really hard for me to get behind. On the one hand I can get behind the compassion and safety aspect. Addicts have a sickness and shouldn’t be treated as criminals who have no value and are disposable. On the other hand, I have personal experience with just how much damage an addict does to those around them. Enabling them to do that damage and victimize the very people who love and once trusted them with everything feels wrong.

I'm not convinced that safe and legal drug taking will enable addicts any more than they're already so.
Also there are many recreational drug takers who don't harm society.
- Sure, I don’t think this will enable them more than any other source. I guess in my case with the difficulties I’ve experienced, the pain my kids and I are still experiencing, any source of the substance at the root of it is hard to accept.

ugh. i barely want to respond to this, but "deserve" in this context is wild. substance abuse is a medical condition, not a moral failing. its disproportionately affects people who are poor, mentally ill, or otherwise disadvantaged, and many unhoused people start doing drugs while on the street, because if fucking sucks to be living on the street.
the actual utility of "locking people up" as a response to drug abuse is not positive. prisons are miserable places, and people often aren't given the kind of care they need to get clean and stay clean, and relapse when they get out, because their circumstances haven't improved. as it turns out, locking people in a cage for years does little to address the underlying issues that cause substance abuse. nobody "deserves" prison. its ineffective generally, and particularly ineffective at actually getting people off of drugs. all it does is punish people who are suffering.
- Thank you.
@AngryMulbear @grte
You should consider moving back to X to spew your vitriol.
Making it illegal is what is causing the cycle of "spilling out into I've streets"