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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Any proposal for decriminalization must include research into effective, science based treatment for prevention and addiction, substance antagonists and mechanisms to reduce the market and not allow a replication of the failed alcohol model.
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Replying to @_Z__ @chesaboudin
I believe there are pharmacological cures for addiction, which are also banned, decriminalizing all drugs would allow access to these cures, hopefully addressing the underlying addiction.
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Replying to @netfire4 @chesaboudin
This must be researched and utilized more than ever in human history. At a financial loss, if necessary.
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Please have mercy on @walking_rain , a @harvardmed phd nuerobiochemist, a @Kennedy_School public policy advocate, a monk from our cities zen school, for offering to cure the world from addiction.
Please we have @whip_poorwills almost to martyrdom.https://twitter.com/whip_poorwills/status/1170453327345328129 …
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