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lambdaba ◴[] No.40214463[source]
Great, now do psilocybin, LSD and MDMA.
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Extropy_ ◴[] No.40214711[source]
DMT and mescaline too.
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1. a_wild_dandan ◴[] No.40215017[source]
Do all of them. To me, government exists to mediate interactions between parties. Not to get involved in personal choices. If someone wants to rip fat lines of coke, good for them. Not my business.
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2. krapp ◴[] No.40215044[source]
Do you think people who rip fat lines of coke will never interact with society in any way that affects you?

Of course government gets involved in personal choices. Every crime committed by a person is a personal choice. Interactions between parties are interactions between people. The distinction you're trying to draw here doesn't exist.

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3. lambdaba ◴[] No.40215056[source]
We don't live in libertarian utopia, let's first focus on substances that are *obviously* misclassified, the ones cited before have actual benefits, the most obvious one being psilocybin.
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4. vips7L ◴[] No.40216602[source]
Do they need to have benefits? Whether they are beneficial or not people are using drugs like MDMA. Making them illegal has only caused harm.
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5. OkayPhysicist ◴[] No.40217073[source]
Legitimate crimes have a perpetrator and a victim. That's two parties in conflict. Drug possession only has 1 party, the person possessing or doing the drugs, and drug sales have two parties who aren't in conflict.
6. ct0 ◴[] No.40217961[source]
clearly you havent thought of the children /s
7. lambdaba ◴[] No.40219114{3}[source]
I'm just saying it's an easier sell, if we legalize these the demand for harmful drugs will go down too.