There would certainly need to be education about opioids.

But just a reminder, they were legal throughout most of history. Recently, from the civil war until 1920’s era (some laws in the teens and others later) we had morphine, heroin, and injections. Laudanum was sold at every store. And we had issues but it wasn’t the mass destruction that society fears.

Honestly the best way to keep people off drugs is economic security.

I understand your apathy towards the legalization. I just believe it’s the best course forward. There is no stopping fentanyl and the next chemical to come out. There are a few new RC’s that will be most likely be hitting hard in a few years that I’m troubled by as well.

No way to keep chemicals from poorer countries or areas to produce and smuggle in. We just can’t stop it. Fentanyl is only a thing now. What happens when the next more euphoric and less deadly one comes?

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Looking at this, it seems that Europe is still the center of the world. North America and East Asia are still very border area compared to Europe.

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It's so weird to do this with the sticker price of college, and to combine in- and out- of state. Sticker price the max you pay in tuition, and families where people are earning minimum wage usually get huge discounts on the price. The UC system in California says about 55% of students pay no tuition at all. The statement used as the title is not supported by this analysis.

I think there's good data out there on average cost of attending schools (tuition and living costs net of grants and student aid).

Lake Mead is in Nevada, on the Colorado River. California simply imports water from there. It won't be getting as much aid from the atmospheric river because the Colorado River is on the far side of the Sierra mountains. California has a lot of its own reservoirs -- apparently, there are even rubber dams making reservoirs now; the smaller ones have really benefited

Ignorant is thinking darwinism is applicable to human society

That improves my post. Although I am fiercly against death penalty, we could consider an exception here. (and for whoever stole my daughters bicycle, too)

> [opiates kill around] 30 per 100,000 people)

Also for reference: the murder rate is ~5 per 100k, suicide is ~11 per 100k. The opiate epidemic is terrifying.

> deaths would go down tremendously.

While I'm in favor of broad decriminalization/legalization/policy-reform for all drugs, I'm not 100% sold on this claim for opiates. Your claim could be correct, but historically opiates have uniquely ravaged whole societies. The book "Ten Drugs" talks about 2000 year-old medical description of how useful opiates can be, noting 'it is hard to get patients to discontinue use'. The book also notes the cycle of opium use in history, swinging from 'this time it'll be safer' to 'way to many people are addicts now' (See Laudanum; OxyContin).

Current policy has definitely incentivized Fentanyl trade and made billions for murderous cartels. Safe-use areas with government provided heroine were helpful in combating the Swiss heroine crisis in the 1990's. However the additive potential of opiates is up there with drug nicotine, only much more destructive.

>You will never solve sorrow and rage by blaming drugs and guns.

But fixing societies problems means that people won't profit as much and we cannot have that now can we? /s

Honestly, I have been saying for years now that the issue that the USA has regarding guns and crime is down to social inequity. The less you have the more likely you are to risk it all to get more (i.e. purely risk versus reward). The lower the social status of your family growing up the more likely you are to have mental health issues that push you towards drug use to escape it all - happy well adjusted people are rarely self-destructive.

If they legalized and sold it in a controlled manner, with a set amount you can have (much like marijuana), deaths would go down tremendously.

Not only deaths, but $$$ for crime lords, human trafficking, all that evil shit. Then the amount of money saved by taxpayers on hospitals and rehabs. This doesn’t include the revenue generated by legalization which is more than enough to fund rehab services and do good for local communities with funding.

Keeping it illegal does nothing. Stops no one. It’s not like anyone who wants to use OPIODS doesn’t because it’s illegal. In fact much of the problem such as deaths is caused specifically from it being illegal (lowered tolerance deaths once out of dope for a short while).

I’m not suggesting anyone do heroin. I’m just stating that keeping it illegal is causing a lot of problems and isn’t solving the entire purpose of it being illegal.

Yes, but to a lesser extent.

I wanna know but I don’t wanna know anymore bad things.

Wow, that's a horrible take. "Let em die." As an alcoholic who's been active in recovery communities for years, I can tell you with complete certainty that we can do a lot to help addicts. So miss me on your next bit of social Darwinism & work on developing a sense of compassion.

Nothing we can rly do to stop people from killing themselves. The people who are likely to OD are also the ones that actively ignore all advice on the dangers of OD

Thank you for just showing a line graph and not doing this as a video.

When Obama gave his ISIS speech back in the 10s outlining his use of force policies, I definitely thought they should apply them to the drug war at the border. I am against intervening in foreign countries...but if you are gonna do it anyway, do it to the greatest extent possible. Drone strike some Cartel mountain hideouts and mansions too

Common opiates is a nice way of saying pills

Hang the Sackler Family Portraits right next to Charles Manson and Ted Bundy.