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Comment on Nitrous oxide: Laughing gas to be illegal by end of year

TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

But there are tons of costs with criminalisation, too. The cost of police time, the cost of court time, the cost of prison, the loss of production from otherwise good citizens being made into criminals. Which is the better use of public resources? Which would be more effective at actually preventing cannisters from being left around everywhere?

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RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It seems strange to me to even consider the two as ways of combating litter

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- TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Well, cannisters are the only real problem here. All the expert advise said the drug was a non-issue, however there are certainly a lot of cannisters being left all over the place, creating a visible problem. Criminalising it probably won’t do anything about the visible problem, it will just incur costs and make otherwise law abiding citizens into criminals.
  
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  - RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I was just saying that the deposit systems aren’t as simple as one might initially think.
    
    I’ve done laughing gas and while it was fun I don’t really care whether it’s legal or not. It seems like a very minor thing.
    
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