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All the more reason to encourage domestic production of drugs in regulated (ie, legal and not cartel-run) markets.

Blaming the customers is ineffective, because there's no way to end the demand for drugs entirely - we have decades of prohibitions that prove that[0]. Whether or not you or I would like them to boycott these products on principle en masse is a moot point, because it's just not feasible.

[0] If we can't even keep federal prisons drug-free, how could we keep the rest of the country drug-free?



We probably aren't going to legalize cocaine or meth any time soon.


I agree.

Not sure what type of event it would take to finally push people over the edge to favor an end to drug prohibition but I imagine it is so drastic that the vested interests in the cartels wouldn't be stupid enough to do it.


Just a younger electorate. Probably next decade.


That's what people said about cannabis not even 5 years ago.


That kind of cynicism is based upon an irrational distinction.


Blaming the customers is what we do with pedophiles. It seems to work even though it's immoral.


Is that working? I thought we had successfully driven pedophiles away from professional help and into online communities where their behavior is encouraged.

Or are you being sarcastic?


Pedophile behavior in online communities doesn't harm anyone, and doesn't need professional help any more than homosexual behavior needs professional help. It's the illegal production of the product that causes the harm.


Some peodophiles predate young people using online communities to do so. This does harm those people.

Making a link between homosexuality (consenting adults) with the paraphilia paedophilia (adults predating children) is a fucking weird thing to do.




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