Comments by "" (@MeanBeanComedy) on "Trump Praised China’s Execution of Drug Dealers?" video.

  1.  @NATIVESUNSETS65  No price reduction? Cannabis went from $20/g to $8/g. It's objectively cheaper per ounce in legal states too. Even then, someone would be stealing something far cheaper to fund a habit. That's of course if we don't have some program which just gives addicts their drugs on account of minimizing harm, which I don't support, but would be magnitudes cheaper than the $1,000,000,000,000 we've spent on the drug war thus far.
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  2.  @mahamedjmal2536  To minimize harm and due to the fact that people own their own bodies and you don't.
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  3.  @mahamedjmal2536  You're damned right I'm looking at it from an individualistic sense. Individual rights come first. That's what this country was founded on. The moment you start valuing the collective over the individual, they moment you start stacking up bodies by the millions, just like every other collectivist regime does. You don't own anyone's body but your own, and your desire to help your community doesn't give you the right to rob someone else of his or her bodily autonomy. If you want fewer drug addicts, the drug war is the last thing you should be supporting, since it's done nothing but push up OD deaths and addiction rates. We had far fewer drug problems before prohibition, when our great-grandparents could get hard drugs at the local corner store. I don't advocate returning entirely to that, but going further in the disastrous direction we are headed is the wrong move.
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  4.  @Ddub1083  It hasn't where its been decrimmed. OD deaths didn't skyrocket before prohibition. There's no reason to believe people would run out to try heroin if it were legal. The law is very rarely a deterrent for people looking to get high. The people who want to do drugs are doing drugs, and those who don't aren't.
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  5.  @tari8134  Yeah, giving someone a hot bag might be different ethically, but it's absurd to compare a serial killer, whose actions kill 100% of the time, to a drug dealer, who's selling someone something that might kill him, but likely won't.
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  6. I guess that makes the death penalty for voluntary exchanges okay then?
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  7.  @NATIVESUNSETS65  Legal drugs are far cheaper than illegal drugs. You'd be cutting the price of a high down to about 10% of what it used to be. A couple cans at the recycling center and you're good to go.
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  8. It would decrease OD deaths, though. If a Heroin addict knew he was getting heroin and knew the dose he was getting, he'd be far less likely to OD accidentally.
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  9. Do you have any data to back up what you've said? Addiction rates fell, needle diseases fell, and ODs fell. Your response is your country is now "poor?"
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  10.  @paulgaya5099  "Involve," aka usually polydrug use. If you've got 5mg of hydro in you and you shoot up 5mg of fentanyl and die, you're added to that stat.
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  11. Legal drugs are safer and far less likely to kill someone, due to the fact that you know what you're getting, instead of gambling on diacetylmorphine being diacetylmorphine instead of fentanyl.
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  12. It's genetic. Has to do with the absence or presence of an enzyme.
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  13. They're not physical withdrawals, though.
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