We are not talking about 1.2 liters of 100 proof. We are talking about 1 liter of 80 proof. I am about 150 pounds, it will not put you in the hospital either.
If you were going to change the volume and the strength why not just claim 100 liters of 200 proof would kill you?
I live in Western NY. Drinking and driving does occur, but it is not anywhere near as common as it was 20 years ago. Here you are looking at five figure fines, and the possibility of jail time.
It is also an example of something no one would use for cut just for that reason. Unlike what DARE taught you, drug dealers are just working folks trying to make a living. Killing customers cuts into the bottom line.
Yes, people do die from high dosages. That is the result of a drug war that means users can never be sure of the purity of the product they buy. You will of course notice that all alcohol and pharmaceuticals are labeled as to their strength. I am not sure how you can blame anyone but those who support the War on Some Drugs for those fatalities.
The vast majority of drug consumption in the USA is not done by "druggies". It is done by white collar workers who no one would suspect of such.
I am betting you have never been part of a typical drug deal.
Think less what you see on TV and in movies and more mundane real life. People are doing this to make money, killing the buyers does not help with that.
Are you insane? How is a drug conviction going to help a kid? Not being able to get college loans will not help him, making him unemployable will not help him, sending him to jail for relatively harmless LSD while letting his brother destroy his liver with alcohol is not helping anyone either.
Nope. If anything this might actually reduce selling on corners since it is easier. Shutting it down will just increase the need for people to be out and selling.
People are willing to pay, someone will supply. There is nothing you can do to stop that.
Here in reality, believe it or not, the medical route is actually cheaper.
Clean needle programs, access to cheap clean drugs and treating addiction as a medical problem not a criminal one is cheaper and actually works. I know it lacks that self righteous feeling, and that is a downside, but it actually works. Unlike your stupid and immoral plan.
Not really, there is no way to inspect the shear volume of packages shipped. There are containers made for this that block the smell and even hide the product inside normal looking products.
Sure the postal service might use dogs on occasion, but there is no practical way for USPS and UPS and Fedex to inspect every package.
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Even that is not going to make an addict. Where does this free drug myth come from? No dealer is giving away free drugs, it does not happen.
Nicotine is far more addictive, and still requires multiple uses to be addictive.
We are not talking about 1.2 liters of 100 proof. We are talking about 1 liter of 80 proof. I am about 150 pounds, it will not put you in the hospital either.
If you were going to change the volume and the strength why not just claim 100 liters of 200 proof would kill you?
Is anyone actually surprised Florian Mueller is a shill?
Did anyone not see that coming? Hopefully, the media will stop printing anything he says.
So again it is the government not the illegal drug sellers that are poisoning users.
As you yourself note, the real issue with Mexico's drug war is the USAs drug laws.
Alcohol, which is cheap because it is legal.
You were lied to. Nothing is addictive the first time you use it.
In the 80s you could not get a medical card. Many states are decriminalized. In some states it is no more than a civil fine.
1 liter of vodka will not kill you. Alcohol is bad for you, no need to exaggerate.
I disagree, many drugs can be used in that way. The most popular illegal recreational drug in the USA can and is used that way.
I live in Western NY. Drinking and driving does occur, but it is not anywhere near as common as it was 20 years ago. Here you are looking at five figure fines, and the possibility of jail time.
It is also an example of something no one would use for cut just for that reason. Unlike what DARE taught you, drug dealers are just working folks trying to make a living. Killing customers cuts into the bottom line.
Yes, people do die from high dosages. That is the result of a drug war that means users can never be sure of the purity of the product they buy. You will of course notice that all alcohol and pharmaceuticals are labeled as to their strength. I am not sure how you can blame anyone but those who support the War on Some Drugs for those fatalities.
The vast majority of drug consumption in the USA is not done by "druggies". It is done by white collar workers who no one would suspect of such.
What does dosage have to do with it?
There are illegal drugs that cannot be consumed in a rate fast enough to cause death. There are drugs no one would want to consume that much.
Dosages would be better understood and less people would die if the drugs that can kill by overdose were legal and properly labeled.
I am betting you have never been part of a typical drug deal.
Think less what you see on TV and in movies and more mundane real life. People are doing this to make money, killing the buyers does not help with that.
Just like the GP!
Use google, then get a slashdot account.
You think there are doing this to help kids?
Are you insane?
How is a drug conviction going to help a kid? Not being able to get college loans will not help him, making him unemployable will not help him, sending him to jail for relatively harmless LSD while letting his brother destroy his liver with alcohol is not helping anyone either.
DUI laws stop people from drinking and driving. It used to be pretty common until it became a serious offense with serious punishments.
Making drugs illegal does not prevent their use. Nothing will do that, even in nations with a death penalty for drug crimes drugs are still sold.
Nope.
If anything this might actually reduce selling on corners since it is easier. Shutting it down will just increase the need for people to be out and selling.
People are willing to pay, someone will supply. There is nothing you can do to stop that.
Here in reality, believe it or not, the medical route is actually cheaper.
Clean needle programs, access to cheap clean drugs and treating addiction as a medical problem not a criminal one is cheaper and actually works. I know it lacks that self righteous feeling, and that is a downside, but it actually works. Unlike your stupid and immoral plan.
So then why is alcohol legal?
It does all of those things. Yet, drugs that do not cause that sort of behavior are illegal.
Can we do that with whatever bad for you stuff you like? Maybe alcohol, or fattening food or if you don't get enough exercise?
Not really, there is no way to inspect the shear volume of packages shipped. There are containers made for this that block the smell and even hide the product inside normal looking products.
Sure the postal service might use dogs on occasion, but there is no practical way for USPS and UPS and Fedex to inspect every package.
Has this ever happened?
So far the only such case I know of was poisoned illegal booze during prohibition and it was the government doing it.
Dead men are not repeat customers, so doing that is not a good way to make money.
So you can now pay your mortgage in bitcoins or weed?
Because so far it seems drugs and arms all about all you can get with bitcoins.
Europe is a continent, not a country. You could have suggested as an example the nations found on that continent.