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by pageandrew 1385 days ago
Psychedelics still can’t legally be sold in SF. What good is criminalizing simple possession?

Besides, for every animal sacrifice on LSD there are 100 (probably more) drunk drivers crashing into trees, parked cars, oncoming traffic, and pedestrians, and alcohol is totally legal and widely used.

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> Besides, for every animal sacrifice on LSD there are 100 (probably more) drunk drivers crashing into trees, parked cars, oncoming traffic, and pedestrians, and alcohol is totally legal and widely used.

That seems to ignore the fact that there are far more people drinking than tripping. I'm not saying that with an equal numbers of users the math wouldn't still make drinking more dangerous, I really don't know, but it's an unfair comparison.

Unsure if by "parked cars" you've meant crashing into parked cars or parked cars by themselves being a bad thing
I think they meant "crashing into parked cars". Because if you interpret it the other way, it implies that they also consider the mere existence of oncoming traffic and pedestrians a bad thing.
>it implies that they also consider the mere existence of oncoming traffic and pedestrians a bad thing

Why not?