Drugs, 500 times stronger than heroin, taking Australian lives?

theguardian.com

18 pointswslh5 comments

> “Consuming any illicit drug or substance could be fatal. You don’t know what you’re taking.”

If we legalized, taxed, and regulated drugs this wouldn’t happen.

>taxed

You'd still have these dodgy imports by people/gangs wanting to evade taxation.

People tend to assume things would go according to their fantasy mental model on this topic, but I strongly believe that legalisation of strongly addictive substances would pave the way for an illegal market for stronger and cheaper illegal drugs, untaxed and unregulated.

Addicted people don’t reason the same way as non-addicted people.

They run capitalism in its purest form

>Jarrod Bleijie: “The only people that benefit from illegal drugs and pill-testing is bikie criminal gangs.”

Fuck I hate politicians who think appearing tough is more important than harm(/death) minimisation which is what pill-testing enables.

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