claim: ending prohibition would do more about the inequality that matters than any other intervention, but not for the usually cited reasons
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Economic and political dangers in a euphoric but zombified population. On a more concrete level, I think the opioid epidemic gives some reason for concern that human irrationality may not be well-suited to the chemical availability of happiness.
I’m suspicious of the “opioid crisis” currently taking place under a prohibition regime
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prohibition tends to limit and concentrate available substances and remove group ritual guidance
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Agreed. But I have some experience with doctors who are dealing with opioid patients because I have serious insomnia and sleeping-pills were foolishly lumped together with the opioids in regulation, so I see in how they deal with me what they're getting from others. (cont.)
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