xalloc

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   by xalloc 12y ago

   > Criminal charges and prison are definitely unhealthy. Making someting illegal does not mean you have to put people in prison. You do understand that we can forbid a drug and try to stop the sale of drugs, and still provide support for
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   by xalloc 12y ago

   > Putting substances into your own body should not be illegal Why is this so? By axiom? Any parent will forcibly forbid her child to put any substance in his body. We make things illegal exactly because we recognize that a sufficiently l
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   by xalloc 12y ago

   > The legal pot shop owners will eventually be CVS, Walgreens, etc. I find your assuredness amazing. The truth of the matter is that nobody has the slightest idea how the legalization of cannabis is going to play out. The coming few year
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   by xalloc 12y ago

   If a few owners of a legal pot shops end up in a vats of acid, demand might return quickly. I'm not stating that this will happen, I'm just sceptical of the idea that criminal organizations will just quit and go home just because
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   by xalloc 12y ago

   I doubt Mexican drug cartels will suddenly become any nicer when confronted with competition from legal businesses. Whatever they are doing now, what's going to stop them from continuing to do it? Obviously not the police.
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   by xalloc 12y ago

   When people don't like the result of a study, the very existence of "causality" all of sudden turns into a point of contention.