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> “Consuming any illicit drug or substance could be fatal. You don’t know what you’re taking.” If we legalized, taxed, and regulated drugs this wouldn’t happen
by caterama 11mo ago
> “Consuming any illicit drug or substance could be fatal. You don’t know what you’re taking.”
If we legalized, taxed, and regulated drugs this wouldn’t happen.
- mna_ 11mo ago>taxed You'd still have these dodgy imports by people/gangs wanting to evade taxation.
- znpy 11mo agoPeople tend to assume things would go according to their fantasy mental model on this topic, but I strongly believe that legalisation of strongly addictive substances would pave the way for an illegal market for stronger and cheaper illegal drugs, untaxed and unregulated. Addicted people don’t reason the same way as non-addicted people.
- shadyKeystrokes 11mo agoThey run capitalism in its purest form