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wart365 t1_j5wm4h6 wrote

So long as I can order a vial of "research" chemicals from China I can order fentanyl. This is a problem with how the US makes it so easy to buy such chemicals and import them. If the government had any balls, they'd just restrict such imports entirely except to accredited institutions and licensed pharmacists. It'd shove it all into an underground black market, but it's already a grey market and it can start a discussion about decriminalizing possession and focusing on distribution instead.

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H4xolotl t1_j5wxzo2 wrote

Waltuh: "I'm something of a pharmacist myself"

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m0le t1_j5xd6rn wrote

I'm surprised more countries haven't gone the way the UK did and passed deeply flawed legislation against everything psychoactive (with exceptions for some preexisting stuff).

Despite it theoretically outlawing stuff like incense, it doesn't seem to have been abused so far.

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Temnothorax t1_j5xi1bo wrote

Why would a pharmacist even need research chemicals unless they were in academia?

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chadenright t1_j5xcy0q wrote

If we decriminalized possession we'd have to fuel our prison industry with some other widespread crime. Maybe make driving 5 over the speed limit into a felony with a three strikes rule; third time you're 20 to life.

I mean, those corporations gotta profit right? They employ like literally a million prison guards, and if we stopped feeding people into the machine all those guards would be out a job.

Luckily between the cartels, the pharmacies and the for-profit prison corps there is plenty of money to bribe congress with and a majority of corrupt congress critters right now. We won't have to worry about winning the drug war any time in the near future.

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