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Splyce123 t1_jarszm6 wrote

Reply to comment by Minqua in Premier 'astonished' at B.C. firm's claim it got Health Canada approval to make and sell cocaine by IHOP_007

Or maybe booze and cigarettes should be illegal as they're as dangerous as cocaine?

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Minqua t1_jart9m3 wrote

We tried that with booze once and it didn’t work at all and keeping coke illegal hasnt been working for 50 years

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Splyce123 t1_jarth3n wrote

I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with you. Just pointing out that there's always 2 ways to look at the situation.

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Whatevernevermind2k t1_jaweetc wrote

How do you know it has it worked? It hasn’t been legal for a century so you have nothing to compare it to, for all you know legal cocaine use would quadruple the number of users.. meaning only prohibition is keeping it down to todays user numbers.

Plus the statement that prohibition of alcohol did not work is a historical inaccuracy. Prohibition did have positive effects, including a significant decrease in alcohol consumption and a reduction in alcohol-related deaths.

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Minqua t1_jawexjt wrote

Do you really not see the violence the drug trade has caused in poorer communities? Its a black market item so that makes it way more dangerous. Colombia in the 80s/90s, mexico now.

Please the war on drugs has been an enormous failure

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Whatevernevermind2k t1_jawfnxk wrote

What make you so sure the violence would not be a hell of a lot worse if it was legalised?

The most violence caused by any intoxicant is caused by alcohol; which is legal.

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Minqua t1_jawhnx8 wrote

Have you ever heard of a gang shooting over aspirin?

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Whatevernevermind2k t1_jawiib3 wrote

What are the number of deaths of cocaine related gang violence vs cocaine related usage deaths?

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Dagonium t1_jartekb wrote

We should also make murder legal. Laws against it hasn't been working for hundreds of years.

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samuelgato t1_jas3hxw wrote

Prohibition creates more problems than it solves. The war on drugs is a failure

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glue715 t1_jasb3r1 wrote

Prohibition doesn’t work- at all…

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GetlostMaps t1_jasupmw wrote

It actually works well when targeted as part of a broader strategy - it's just that the US has never done broader strategies, they only ever done token efforts.

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