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by GhettoComputers 1646 days ago
That’s assuming it doesn’t get cut along the way, and it doesn’t already destroy lives or cause overdose on its own.

It’s hard to see it as a moral matter, like all business it’s just sales. Knowing purity doesn’t prevent the OxyContin issues these are just dangerous drugs that are addictive to a lot of people and there is a non zero chance it’ll kill someone. Psychedelics can trigger schizophrenia and mushrooms are unpredictable, but the assumption is that it’ll give people insight. Alcohol is the most used date rape drug, so legalization and standardization isn’t even a solution except for its safety in the case of methanol.

Technology is known to be highly addictive as well.