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• Taalnazi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is not the best argument. You could sell literally anything for drugs.

  If you wanted to tackle drug selling, the following works better:

  a) helping homeless people to get a home, b) unemployed people to get a job w/ livable wage, c) and having safe drugs made by hospitals under strict controls, and used by addicts in controlled environments like hospitals.

  The last one especially is crucial, however paradoxical it seems. It’s because then they don’t need to buy from other addicts or the sellers (who will be very dangerous), and don’t overdose, and with the extra money, can pay eg. rent, groceries.

  The “just kick off from drugs” doesn’t work - if you ever have had an addiction, you know that it’s hard. It only gets easier to kick off if other bad factors in life are removed. Only then is kicking off easier.

  Now, let’s wonder about cars…

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• Jax@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Sold to who?

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