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by galaxyLogic 1170 days ago
Yes there should be good drugs more easily available than bad drugs. Rational people understand they don't want to get their body into a condition where they get into terrible pain if they don't get their next injection soon. Where they have to commit crimes to finance their addiction.

Rational people don't want to take street-drugs which they know might kill them because of bad quality. They are seeing a lot of people dying around them so they know.

This is conceptually not that different from methanol-laced alcohol being available during prohibition. Of course nobody wants to take methanol if they can take ethanol instead. Ethanol is very bad as well. But harm reduction should be the thing that guides our policy.