Comment on Their kids died after buying drugs on Snapchat. Now the parents are suing

• Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Better drugs, more accountability, better regulations, better education, stronger supports funded by the Revenue from drugs.

  How is this news to you?

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  • baatliwala@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Because I don’t live in a country where drugs are rampantly abused like a past time? It’s a good thing you know?

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    • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How’s the weather is make believe land?

      Drug abuse and drug use are not synonymous. Most people who use drugs use them as part of their life and don’t have dependency issues. So who cares if they use them

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    • kandoh@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You’re country is missing out then. Drugs are a key aspect of the human condition.

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  • IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Motivated reasoning is a heluva drug

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    • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How so?

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      • IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Dude you were replying to seems convinced criminalization is the way to go, despite all the evidence to the contrary. Like 120 years worth (give or take) of prohibition in the US. If dude doesn’t want to see that evidence, dude won’t.

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• RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It said the drug she bought wasn’t what was advertised and contained a lethal amount of fentanyl. Legalizing drugs will allow people to get what is advertised and users are able to seek help for addiction etc. Users are going to use regardless if its legal or not. So being able to get help for addiction and buy it safely can significantly reduce the number of unnecessary deaths.

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  • baatliwala@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Okay that actually makes sense and I’m an idiot.

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    • qwrty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Good ending

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  • wildcardology@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “lethal amount of fentanyl” whoever is selling those drugs sucks at their business.

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• Traister101@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Let’s use an example from history, Alcohol. Is the alcohol you can purchase in the store safer than the stuff some sketchy dude will sell you in the parking lot? Probably right? Same goes for drugs, much safer when it’s regulated because making it illegal clearly doesn’t do a good job at preventing deaths.

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• TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Street drugs are cut with nasty shit that kills people. Legal drugs would be regulated and not cut with the nasty shit that kills people. It’s pretty simple.

  Also, if people’s lives and ability to get a good job aren’t fucked by going to jail for using drugs, they are more likely to want to eventually get clean so they can get one of those good jobs.

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  • JewGoblin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think people miss the point of drug abuse, most addicts are suffering from some kind of trauma, yes, we shouldn’t put addicts in jail, but we have to find another approach.

    I was in the “make all drugs legal” but that’s just another can of worms

    there’s no easy fix, we must treat addicts like we would any mental illness. I spent most of my 20’s in and out of jails, I never hurt anyone but myself, and was treated like an animal.

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    • TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I, personally, believe that everyone should have the right to their own consciousness and the ability to alter it. That should be the one thing that nobody can take away from you. There are many functional addicts even ones on harder drugs, and they aren’t hurting anybody. They would be hurting themselves less if they had access to clean and regulated drugs.

      I do agree that we should have resources and tools for people to help get clean. Most people people don’t want to do drugs forever, it’s a phase in most people’s lives, but if they do want that, they should be allowed to. Nobody is forced to be a productive member of society or be successful. Our time here is short, and the one thing we should be allowed full control over is what is in between our eyes.

      That being said, I do agree that treating it like a mental illness can be the right thing to help someone if they are struggling, and I appreciate your addition to the conversation very much.

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• crit@links.hackliberty.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Gets rid of any added substances, lessens the “forbidden fruit” appeal of drugs and implements safety checks so if you do OD or are worried you’ve OD’d you’re not afraid to call the ambulance.

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• prole@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Harm reduction bro

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