As a taxpayer, how do you propose not multiplying the devastation the alcohol industry model has wrought on society?
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Replying to @_Z__ @chesaboudin
We tried prohibition of alcohol, and quickly reversed it recognizing just how much money it placed in the hands of criminals this is a much smaller quantity, but producing similar violence.
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Replying to @netfire4 @chesaboudin
Sure, but the devastating results from alcohol persist. So your idea is to simply hand the trade to the free market, like we did with alcohol?
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Replying to @_Z__ @chesaboudin
I ask you to consider whether this might decrease usage? I think through prohibition and the huge price for the relatively cheap to manufacture chemicals we as a society pay for a huge marketing and advertising campaign for lawlessness.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30CDHuiRCrc …
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Replying to @netfire4 @chesaboudin
If we’re talking about reducing the cost to society, a monopoly will vastly outperform any free market solution.
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Replying to @_Z__ @chesaboudin
Oh absolutely not, A monopoly is hugely inefficient and we only grant them out of reverence to either political pressure or in deference to intellectual property.
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Replying to @netfire4 @chesaboudin
How do you define “efficiency”? What business will operate without profit and hopes of increasing the market for their products?
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Replying to @_Z__ @chesaboudin
You've narrowly focused there but nonprofit ones? Most medical products? (don't see knee surgeons out there with baseball bats and a spinner sign) Even bars are not nearly as pushy as the pushers.
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Replying to @netfire4 @chesaboudin
At least you may agree that these products are far from normal in their ability to devastate individuals, families and communities.
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Replying to @_Z__ @chesaboudin
A minority of our controlled substance list but yes, Methamphetamine( especially all of the children on adderall ) is the worst. Opiods and analogs, are problems especially because people tend to use so closely to the LD50 limits. But these substances, cannot be eliminated
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They cant be eliminated, but they can and should be monopolized. And by doing so we can drastically reduce the criminality surrounding them and the harm produced.
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