More people die from prescription opiates every year than from heroin....Even if you know the exact purity, people still try to get as high as possible and OD all the time. It would be better if it was standardized, but people will continue to take too much.
Is this not simply a result of there being significantly more prescription opiates on the market than heroin? I have little doubt this is nothing more than a result of the hugely-different availability and channels the two compounds see in the black market, but would be interested if anyone knows or cares to google around.
It's difficult to not see someone who had apparently hoarded 5% of all BC's in circulation as a profiteer though no?
Along w/ the supposed contract killings (which seem incredibly dubious - will be interesting to see actual, verifiable proof, not merely email text purportedly from him), this is one of the most commonly-mentioned wrongs of this. Why is it wrong that he took a commission? Was it that the commission was too high? Or no commission at all is fair?
He risked a lot, he setup a service that was of value, and he wasn't skimming money in a shady fashion but merely setup a commission structure which, evidenced by years of being used, the site's customers/sellers agreed with.
"Profiteer" is an inherently subjective word, and personally I prefer to save it for groups such as halliburton or OPEC, not dpr..
But with most overdoses, it is a combination of medications not just one. Although it does happen, but most people just take benzos,opiates, then maybe chug a beer thinking it is alright.
Yes, absolutely. Nobody is suggesting that ending prohibition turns a dangerous situation to a safe one; it merely makes it
safer (in regards to the product / the act of getting high; obviously freedom and finance are two other important areas being f'd by the war)
While prohibition doesn't make anyone safer, there's hardly anything that makes life safer for the wreckless types you describe here, they're the types that run a way higher chance of hurting themselves in many ways from drugs to speeding/DUI, and the very notion of setting up regulations for
everyone, to protect those who don't care to exercise the smallest cautions to protect themselves, is a foolish way to structure policy (IMO. Clearly there are many who would disagree. My opposition to "OTC, 18+" sales has absolutely nothing to do with protecting individual users who are of age and sane mind, but more to do with other negatives of cheap, potent narcotics - for instance, a kilo of fentanyl shouldn't be available at any price to anyone, because it's no longer dangerous solely in a personal OD sense)
As much as I want to see it happen, I think it's important to remain rational about the issue, especially when discussing it with non users, proposals like 7-11 heroin don't really do the cause any favours.
Are you addressing a strawman, or did someone actually suggest 7-11's carry OTC heroin at market costs? I haven't read every post in this thread so I may have missed where that was suggested..
[apologies for grammer/ramble, cannot wake up properly today lol]
