I guess I disagree that no matter the amount of violence applied you can achieve a monopoly on selling a chemical that can be readily produced in a soda bottle with cough medicine. How might you do this differently than the last hundred years?
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Replying to @netfire4 @chesaboudin
If you sell at a price that is lower or competitive with diy, would people choose to produce artisinal meth? Do people brew their own beer to save money?
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Replying to @_Z__ @chesaboudin
I mean artisinal yes, but people don't go blind from methanol poisoning anymore, because beer is way cheaper to buy than brew. Brewing beer is not cheaper than buying beer in bulk.
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Replying to @netfire4 @chesaboudin
Right. And most won't make their own substances when they can buy them easily.
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Replying to @_Z__ @chesaboudin
Only the people who care will, and they will probably care enough to do so well enough to only poison people as they intend to mostly?
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Replying to @netfire4 @chesaboudin
A tiny minority will spend the $ and run the risk. But ultimately we're talking about a fraction of the population who use these substances anyway.
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Replying to @_Z__ @chesaboudin
That will be lower cost, lower profit, and the risk will be even dumber and unusual of one to take.
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Replying to @netfire4 @chesaboudin
In the monopoly scenario, there would be very little room for any black market profit and oversized risk. Lose/Lose
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Replying to @_Z__ @chesaboudin
You as a taxpayer want to hand out government heroine and be medically liable for its usage? What medical treatment is only free if you're a heroine user?
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Replying to @netfire4 @chesaboudin
Taxpayers are already complicit with the trade. We authorize the prohibition. We fund the "drugwar". This scenario would drastically reduce harm, reduce violence, reduce spending on law enforcement and military spending and strengthen democracies currently under attack.
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It would also make a mythical lucrative "career path" vanish from existence.
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