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> If the city was willing to sell at cost (seriously, morphine and oxy isn't expensive to make at all), it would also destroy that economy, and potentially free some back in the hands of the people.

There is a proposal for heroin buyers clubs in British Columbia that has a lot of support: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/heroin-buyer...

Legalization not only cuts down crime (from both drug dealers and drug addicts), it prevents overdose deaths and reduces occurrences of medical emergencies and hospitalizations. The city can also collect taxes on the drugs.

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This was already tried in Switzerland, with promising results: https://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi...

Most notably, drug dealers lost financial incentive to hook new users up on the drug, so no new users anymore.

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uhh, care to explain? as written, it's kinda hard to read this post charitably.

It was an error in my reading comprehension and understanding of English. Post has been deleted since it wasn't conveying what I wanted.

I didn't downvote you and I hope that my comment comes across as more similar to a vuln disclosure than a threat.

Your employer is listed in your HN profile. Assuming that you actually work for that company, you should be careful making such comments, even if your intent is completely benign.

When I was a reporter (I'm not anymore) I trawled HN comments for stories. It is not inconceivable that some Gizmodo-esque rag might write "[Redacted] Employee Making Racist Comments on Tech Forum" or whatever.

Ah, I wasn't trying to be racist in my post. But I see now how that could be read in a bad way.

I figured, since I'm familiar with some of the stats too. Just be careful out here on the internet :)

I didn't realize police prosecute unfairly and was just looking at the stats...a friend shared an article on the targeting/prosecution breakdown and it wasn't favorable for young Blacks in the U.S.

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