Comments by "Liam" (@1495978707) on "Why Calcium Chloride Is Fueling a Cocaine War" video.

  1. What’s interesting is that despite supply and demand impacting price is like basic knowledge everyone knows, governments seem to think that artificially restricting supply will make drug use go away. Instead, it makes it much more profitable to engage in production, and makes producers especially violent. This doesn’t reduce demand significantly; if reduction in consumption is the desire, you need to address the demand, not the supply. Without demand, supply will wither. But that doesn’t mean imprisoning drug users, which is the easy way out that hurts more than it helps, it means addressing the material conditions that drive people to use drugs. Also, a reflection on why the government is so interested in curtailing drug use. If it were about public health, wouldn’t the government do anything about the worst addiction in this country, sugar?
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