Comment on Colombian president says cocaine 'no worse than whisky'

• protist@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Meanwhile, severe cocaine withdrawal makes you tired and irritable while severe alcohol withdrawal makes you have seizures and die. Most people who use cocaine never develop an addiction, just like most people who drink never develop alcoholism. As far as addiction potential, methamphetamines, opiates, and nicotine are the worst offenders.

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  • argon@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you make cocaine legal, you effectively make crack legal, since the conversion is trivial.

    And no, methamphetamine existing does not make cocaine less harmful.

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    • protist@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you make cocaine legal, you reduce overdose deaths significantly. Most OD deaths involving cocaine are due to dosing uncertainty and adulteration with other substances like fentanyl. Legalization would also decrease barriers to treatment and less criminal justice involvement would improve treatment outcomes

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      • argon@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s certainly true, yet I still disagree with the post’s claim that “cocaine is no worse than whiskey”.

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  • Laser@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’re not addicted to cocaine until you’re poor, until then it’s a habit.

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• stink@lemmygrad.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is just wrong lol. “Alcohol is a lot less addictive” while it is the most abused substance in the world

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  • argon@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The most abused substance is caffeine.

    How often a substance is abused has very little to do with how dangerous or addictive it is.

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    • onlyoneIbought@r.nf ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s note abuse if it doesn’t have any negative impact and unless I’m in denial I’m pretty sure my tea drinking isn’t.

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