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The worst part is that keeping them all illegal drives people towards whatever is available, and some of those choices are far worse than others.

A more flexible approach would see drugs regulated purely based on actual harm coupled with availability of a less harmful analogue (will fentanyl users pick heroin if it's more easily available than fentanyl? If so regulate one much more strictly than the other)

Incidentally that approach might well see tighter regulations on alcohol than several currently illegal drugs.




> Incidentally that approach might well see tighter regulations on alcohol than several currently illegal drugs.

Well, from the scientific view things are pretty clear.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Psychoactive_dru...

Only politics don't want to move. Because why ask science when you can ask the alcohol and tobacco lobby?




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