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by abtom 2079 days ago
Because there's a difference between consuming something willingly and a shady corporation conspiring with the system to get unsuspecting people hooked onto their drug of choice for personal benefit?
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you don’t think of heroin is legalized, there will be corporations conspiring to do the same?
Not if it's legal for the addict (because mental health issue not criminal), but a crime for the pusher/distributor (because you're taking advantage of those w/ addiction tendencies).
> shady corporation conspiring with the system

Was "the system" also put on trial? Or it's just Purdue?

Is there? Everything you see on the store shelves is there because some corporation manipulated the store to put it there, and because that corporation expects to personally benefit from lots of people buying it.