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by nobody9999 1093 days ago
>The health of these communities is at serious risk when you force them in to using unregulated black market narcotics and cleaning products to get high.

In which case, all "drugs" should be legal, with safety/dosing standards and regulation.

That removes the violence inherent in a black market and reduces negative health outcomes (overdoses, etc.).

There are many other reasons (both economic and societal) for full legalization of all "drugs" as well.

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> all "drugs" should be legal, with safety/dosing standards and regulation.

i don't think 1 or 2 beers per day would be better than none. i think everyone would get their 2 beers even if they don't drink. so they can give them to others or use them for currency.

How I read safety/dosing would be standardized weight/volume/concentration of the drug and not the idea of prohibiting sales over a certain amount per person per day. Which as you say would just turn in to a secondary market.
>How I read safety/dosing would be standardized weight/volume/concentration of the drug and not the idea of prohibiting sales over a certain amount per person per day. Which as you say would just turn in to a secondary market.

Exactly.

The idea isn't to limit access or consumption, but rather (as totalconfusion correctly noted) to ensure quality and dosage standards (as the US already does for prescription drugs as well as all the US states with legalized cannabis), as well as ingredient lists and other disclosures.

The specific regulations might vary (e.g., dosage accuracy/precision would likely be significantly more stringent for fentanyl than for cannabis).

My apologies for not being as clear about that as I could have been. I hope I've done better this time.

Edit: Fixed typo.