Colombia’s president: Legalize cocaine, it’s no worse than whiskey

[corkyskog@sh.itjust.works]

I don't know if most people would even know considering its usually stepped on a half dozen times and cut with caffeine and even nastier stuff... And those are the good cutting agents, not the poisons.

Average purity in the US is like 35-60% depending on the market. That's atrocious.

[oneser@lemm.ee]

Cocaine has also ruined many lives. Both are horrible and some people cannot control their consumption.

[deconceptualist@lemm.ee]

Okay, but the combination of coke and alcohol dramatically increases your risk for a heart attack, so having both really available is potentially an even worse health crisis.

[krelvar@lemmy.world]

If you haven't already read it, check out Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari.

[shaggysnacks@lemmy.myserv.one]

Let's not forget that slavery is allowed to exist as a form of punishment in the US.

[timewarp@lemmy.world]

Much less lives than alcohol though.

[gold_e_lox@lemmy.world]

ok but having a [INSERT THING HERE] dramatically increases your risk for [FUTURE HEALTH ISSUE].

fuck punishing someone for ingesting a substance, im an adult and in control of my own body, silly shit.

actually youre right, i am not in control of my body. Institutions of control will always be forcing their will upon me.

[dasus@lemmy.world]

And so doesn't having prescription medication and booze, yet those are completely commonplace with people. We trust them to use them responsibly. Some do abuse them yes, but if they're caught, we try to fix the issue. Not throw them in jail.

Well more the risk with pills and booze is actually the autonomic nervous system getting sedated and you just not breathing after falling asleep. But the amounts for ods are actually kinda high tbh. Not that anyone should do that, we exaggerate risks a tiny bit for a proper purpose; you shouldn't go seeking for your personal limits on something like that.

But like having a half of a mild sedative before a few classes of wine really isn't drug abuse in anything but the technical sense. If you do that every night you've prolly got a problem though.

Anyway the point is most people can be responsible and the government should stop treating us as children just because a minority can't handle their shit.

[ms_lane@lemmy.world]

Trump Monkey Paw USA: Bans Whiskey again

[deconceptualist@lemm.ee]

Oh, I 100% believe that drugs should be decriminalized and treated as a health issue instead. Meaning both individual health and public health. Like how Portugal does it, IIRC.

Booze and cocaine are both party drugs and people already use them together, but I think there's a larger public health concern if they were both readily available. People should have a little more knowledge of the risks. Plenty of folks out there think uppers + downers just cancel out

[deconceptualist@lemm.ee]

Prescription meds generally aren't party drugs. At least not the ones I know about. So that's not quite the same.

[donjamos@lemmy.world]

If both were legal you could educate people about them way better. Give your fellow men some more credit.

If someone who has been informed about the dangers of a drug decides to take it its neither your business nor mine. If someone wants to go free climbing or drove a motorcycle we don't say anything against that either.

[squizzy@lemmy.world]

This book is brilliant, but the last 10% accounted for 90% of my time with the book.

The whole thing is so engaging and interesting and the last bit is a slog

[saleh@feddit.org]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4L20t8Dvlg

"Prison Song"

They're tryna' build a prison
They're tryna' build a prison
Oh

Following the rights movements, you clamped down with your iron fists
Drugs became conveniently available for all the kids
Following the rights movements, you clamped down with your iron fists
Drugs became conveniently available for all the kids

I buy my crack, I smack my bitch
Right here in Hollywood
Nearly two million Americans are incarcerated
In the prison system, prison system of the U.S.

They're tryna' build a prison
They're tryna' build a prison
They're tryna' build a prison
They're tryna' build a prison
For you and me to live in
Another prison system
Another prison system
Another prison system
For you and me

Minor drug offenders fill your prisons, you don't even flinch
All our taxes paying for your wars against the new non-rich
Minor drug offenders fill your prisons, you don't even flinch
All our taxes paying for your wars against the new non-rich

[Chorus]

Oh, oh
All research and successful drug policy
Shows that treatment should be increased
Oh
And law enforcement decreased
While abolishing mandatory minimum sentences
Oh
All research and successful drug policy
Shows that treatment should be increased
Oh
And law enforcement decreased
While abolishing mandatory minimum sentences
Utilizing drugs to pay for secret wars around the world
Drugs are now your global policy, now you police the globe

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