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Why is dealing drugs bad? Bringing hard to obtain product to customers who want and will pay for it.

A friend of mine got hooked on something really bad. We could all see his health deteriorate month by month. He's probably dead right now. Even his parents don't know where he is. He's son will grow up without a father.

I never met his dealer, but I'm sure the dealer saw the decay and did nothing.

The fact that the dealer saw the decay and did nothing is related to the drug's illegality. If the drug were available in a dispensary where you had to go out in public and get your drug, there would be more opportunities for intervention. We already make it illegal to serve alcohol to someone visibly drunk. You can't apply rules like that when the transactions are occurring in the dark.

Is this a joke? There isn't a gas station in this country that will refuse to sell booze to a homeless broken down and busted up alcoholic that begs for change right in front of the gas station. Except of course, the gas stations that legally aren't allowed to sell booze to anybody in the first place.

Dealers have no morals. Even the law that bartenders aren't allowed to serve drunk people is an absolute farce. Walk into any bar in this country and you'll find drunk people being served alcohol.

Which is why Australia has no problem with gambling addiction, right?

Maybe there is more to it than whether something is legal or illegal.

I am pretty sure the dealer is financially incentivized to cut his drugs in a way that deteriorates the health of his customers.

Bad—depends a lot on the circumstances.

Regular tax paying people who want to alter their mind; ok.

But also customers who break the law in order to pay for drugs.

And when and where is it okay to deal? Personally I would not want drug addicts frequenting any place where I am trying to live.

Then what about the product they sell: supplied by violent cartels? No thanks.

Designer drugs laced with who knows what manufactured in an overseas lab? Again no.

Dealers on darknet markets sell hard drugs to children. Even if drugs were legalised - selling them to minors would be illegal.

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