Taken from Joe Rogan Experience #1273 w/Ron Funches:
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3:00 – That's how it is in PA but it's a location that has 3 locked doors to get into so it would be hard to rob but people walking w/ their bags get robbed instead…. I don't understand why it's not legal in PA yet but I do know that the Republicans want a republican in office before they vote it through so they get the win. SMH
We could have thousands and thousands of jobs and people making money but they don't want a Democrat getting the recognition… 😩
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A DRUG IS PROHIBITED?
Drug use does not stop – It is just run underground, in a violent, unregulated market, riddled with death, chaos, and pain.
The tainting, lacing, and cutting of drugs can often mean you're consuming a substance full of as much as 80% impurity.
Often, these impurities are SIGNIFICANTLY worse than the drug the individual is using. Take cocaine as an example; it was discovered that 80% if the U.S. cocaine was laced with a product called levamisole.
Levamisole used to be approved as a treatment for cancers, but it was discontinued in 2000 because some individuals have adverse side effects, thought to be a result of an allergy.
These side effects include the severe necrosis of flesh, which can leave a body disfigured permanently, requiring surgery afterwards. Levamisole can also cause a condition that dramatically drops your white blood cell count, leaving you remarkably vulnerable to infection and other illness; and is often what causes death (most survive levamisole toxicity, but the condition can get pretty gnarly).
This is an instance of people being hurt, disfigured, or killed; and simply doesn't have to EVER happen! This is what infuriates me so much about prohibition. Instances like this, which are EXTREMELY common, result in such a great quantity of easily avoidable pain.
In a DEA analysis, 42% of pills tested for fentanyl contained at least 2 mg of fentanyl, a lethal dose of the drug if you haven't built up any sort of tolerance. [https://www.dea.gov/resources/facts-about-fentanyl%5D
We have well over 100 years of proof that we cannot stop drug use; and we have data right in front of our face showing the vast number of ways that prohibition hurts us all.
This is such an EASY topic to argue for, because prohibition has never been backed by scientific or pharmacological understanding. Rather, the prohibitionist's argument is often based on emption & how they feel; when tens of thousands of lives are being lost every year during instances that plainly never had to occur in the first place.
All we can do is to reduce herm, by regulating these drugs (accurately measured, labeled, 100% pure, and manufactured/distributed/sold with set standards that ensure the safety of the user.
Over 80% of the overdose deaths that take place annually, could be easily prevented. So many people die, unnecessarily, in instances & under circumstances that would never exist in a legal pharmaceutical market.
Here's some resources if you want to read more…
Here's How We Can End the Drug Crisis! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj2fgH9IXNM
Drug Prohibition Hurts EVERYBODY, Not Just the User https://8bitbusiness.com/2022/03/14/drug-prohibition-hurts-everybody-not-just-drug-users/
New to the Drug Legalization Concept? Here's the Most Important Argument! https://8bitbusiness.com/2022/03/14/new-to-the-drug-legalization-concept-heres-the-most-important-argument/
Is Safe Drug Use Possible? https://8bitbusiness.com/2022/03/02/is-safe-drug-use-possible/
WHY WE MUST LEGALIZE EVERY DRUG TODAY
Human Rights – How can we call the U.S. a country of freedom if we are not allowed to consume whatever substance we like?
Drug use affects nobody but the user; after all, how can we all feel comfortable and content with those in power, with absolutely no pharmacological knowledge, deciding what medicines we can and can't consume?
Take cluster headaches (CH) as an example; CH is a rare neurological condition that occurs in 1/100,000 people and has no specific treatment that is legal, causing headache attacks that are SUBSTANTIALLY more severe than migraines and can last several hours; they are also known as "suicide headaches" because the pain drives many to suicide!
But it can be CURED with psychedelics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaL0pLXRr0w&t=319s
How would you feel if you were in their position? Or what if you acquire an illness that can only be treated by a drug that is currently illegal?
Should it not be the individual's choice to decide what is best for them and to do whatever they like with their body, regardless of what other people think?
That is the definition of liberty; the freedom to do what others think is best for us is not liberty nor freedom.
There is SO MUCH to go into on this topic, but at the end of the day, it is nothing short of insane that we have all come to accept that an action, which affects nobody but the individual, has been declared as a crime worth imprisoning the individual for; just because SOME drug users have a problem with these substances.
Here are some good resources…
Here's How We Can End the Drug Crisis! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj2fgH9IXNM
Drug Prohibition Hurts EVERYBODY, Not Just the User https://8bitbusiness.com/2022/03/14/drug-prohibition-hurts-everybody-not-just-drug-users/
New to the Drug Legalization Concept? Here's the Most Important Argument! https://8bitbusiness.com/2022/03/14/new-to-the-drug-legalization-concept-heres-the-most-important-argument/
Is Safe Drug Use Possible? https://8bitbusiness.com/2022/03/02/is-safe-drug-use-possible/
We should decriminalize heroin because locking up sick people snd giving them a criminal record is absolutely wrong. Locking up someone and giving them a criminal for doing something to their own body for enjoyment even if they don’t have an addiction disease to it is absolutely wrong. it’s backwards. Locking people up and giving them criminal records causes much more harm snd absolutely no good. Makes it even more difficult for people to get healthy. Also regulating it would eliminate a lot of crime, dangerous impurities in the drugs, warning labels (like cigarettes and alcohol), as well as funding rehabilitation centers we could offer at no out of pocket cost to patients (one could even argue they’ve paid their own way through treatment buying the products that funds the rehabilitation centers). Look to Oregon. Other states should follow Oregon’s lead. if anything, drug charges should not be criminal, they should be a private, sealed medical record, and if anything the court should only have the authority to mandate in-patient drug treatment depending on the case. And it shouldn’t be easy for them to do by the way the law gets written.
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