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by cody8295
3234 days ago
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Legalizing heroin and regulating it like alcohol would save so many lives. Not sure where everyone here is from, but in Connecticut we've seen hundreds of people die from fentanyl overdoses in just the past few years. In an overwhelming majority of the cases, they were sold what they thought was heroin. Why should we keep forcing drug addicts to buy from dangerous and expensive dealers? Not only would legalizing heroin save millions of lives, it would bring in trillions of dollars in tax revenue |
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My girlfriend, who has lupus and constant pain, was recently denied pain medication because the doctor was concerned that continuing to write prescriptions for opiates would cost him his license. So my girlfriend has been in excruciating, 9/10 pain for the last month because doctors are too concerned about over-prescribing because every soccer mom is suddenly concerned that responsible adults in pain are suddenly going to turn into opiate crazed monsters.
As much as addicts need help, the feeling of the general population is that it's better for someone in pain to suffer than for someone to get a safe, known, pure quantity of opiates without having a good enough reason.