Kids still will get drugs as they are mishandled by others. Eliminating the supply and demand is the only way.
One sign of withdrawal is a short temper. How long has it been?
Actually have not ever used.
I think the death of a toddler from a fentanyl overdose, from drugs her “parents” were packaging for illicit sale, is pit-worthy.
Thank you. That is why it is here. Sucks that shit happens to these kids.
We don’t necessarily disagree, I was speaking mainly to the question of what happened in this story. Drug policy is certainly a much more complex question; OP’s link to a single horrific incident accompanied by a one-sentence sweeping generalization (which isn’t even a sound inference from this story) probably isn’t a great starting point for a reasoned debate.
That’s why it is in the pit, not gd.
Wait a minute… now you care about a child who died because their parents put them in danger.
Because you didn’t give a shit about the child in the other thread you fucking psycho.
I didn’t care about the dad in the other thread you fucking moron.
Wait. Amateurs can cook fentanyl like they did meth? Now, that is some really bad news!
Meh, happens all the time in the Pit off flimsy, inflammatory OP’s.
From my POV some dealers/some users are manipulative and blinded enough that decriminalization and safe access to drugs isn’t going to eliminate the potential for this specific incident, so maybe I have a more cynical view of humanity. I’m bothered when I see focus shifted on the moral agency of some of the causal humans and completely away from others. I guess if the OP has unquestioning faith in a punitive-seeking government drug policy that would bother me too.
Kind of a tangent but you know as much as I hate big brother’s war on drugs and keeping people from harming their own bodies. Sometimes I fear what a future society might look like if all drugs were legalized or something.
Pot to me should clearly be legal, but I’ve heard rational arguments that all drugs should be legalized. I also know if that were the case when I was say 18 years old, I prob would be dead by now if I could have walked in a store and bought any drug I wanted.
Fentanyl? Yeah, the government’s not softening regulations on that anytime soon.
Totally pit-worthy subject, IMHO.
But what to do? Check out this cite on the Mexican Drug War. It claims that, since 2006, 250,000 people have been killed, 30,000 gone missing and 1.6 million have been displaced by the Mexican drug war.
Now, I know, fuck Mexico, right? But if your plan is to fuck drug dealers, I don’t think anything could work like legalizing drugs would. Suddenly the cheese is taken out of the maze, and all these rats have to scatter somewhere else because they aren’t going to be shipping tons of drugs through tunnels, on boats, in shipping containers &etc. into the US. Legalize drugs in the US and believe you me, drug dealers will be fucked.
I have squicky feeling about what the world might look like after such a step. Maybe events like those described in the OP would become more common. Maybe overdose deaths would increase (and they are already epidemic), though it doesn’t seem to have worked out that way in Portugal, where drugs already have been legalized and reportedly drug problems of all kinds are down.
I dunno. I don’t think there is a full answer to the drug issue. Legalization might be the most harm-reducing solution.
May I fuck off now?
You may, with a hearty handshake and the nation’s gratitude.
The pit is an appropriate place for the story.
Not for a one-sentence sweeping generalization that blames anyone who has ever taken an illegal drug for what happened in this incident.
The drug epidemic is out of control. People are dying, families are destroyed, and billions of dollars that could be spent elsewhere are used to control and solve the problem.
Are you Robert Ritchie?
“Crime. Boy, I don’t know.”
Then don’t post on a public message board, dumbass.
I think it’s time for your xanax. Or perhaps you prefer something else.
So, we’re not talking Seagrams or Budweiser?