How the Web Makes a Real-Life Breaking Bad Possible

gallifreyan99 writes "The real revolution in drugs isn't Silk Road—it's the open web. Thanks to the net, almost anyone with a basic handle on chemistry can design, manufacture and sell their own narcotics, and in most cases the cops are utterly unable to stop them. This piece is kind of crazy: the writer actually creates a new powerful-but-legal stimulant based on a banned substance, and gets a Chinese lab to manufacture it."

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Re:Why wait?

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every single problem you can find with fighting hard drugs is smaller than the negative effects of hard drugs themselves (heroin, cocaine, meth)

we can of course find bad tactics in fighting hard drugs, and we should

but what we can't do is say there should be no fight. and we won't

addiction to hard drugs destroys lives. this is the primary and ultimate problem. if you don't understand that problem as the root cause of everything else, you're an idiot on the subject matter

i have no problem with criticisms of various malformed social reactions to drug problems

i have a very big problem with idiots who think these bad reactions are somehow the real problem

no, the hard drugs are the real problem