Because the reason there are overdoses is because no one has any idea the strength of any of the drugs they take. Knowing exactly the dose of the drug you’re taking because it’s legally purchased is a gigantic benefit
A gallon of bleach can kill people, and we sell that in Walmart. People don’t want to die, they want to get high. If you can buy 20, 100 microgram doses, why would you take all 20 at once unless you wanted to die, and if you wanted to die, well, there are more guns than people in the US, trains exist, razors exist… Are we to wrap the entire world in bubble wrap?
Disclaimer: if we have an aligned AGI I may well be for some version of wrapping the world in bubble wrap, but I’m almost certain alignment includes allowing people who truly want to die, to die, but having very few such people because of treatments for depression, a world that doesn’t suck, etc.
You can buy enough alcohol to kill you in any supermarket here in the UK. Along with other chemicals that could easily kill a person if not used responsibly. Pretty sure you can in the US too. Along with guns if I’m not mistaken, which can also kill if not used responsibly.
If Fentanyl was sold at retail it would probably be in pre-measured doses, like pills.
Your reference to a “massive junkie” concerns me. People often think that the second someone uses drugs they become an addict with no self control. Just as the majority of people who use alcohol do so responsibly the majority of people who consume illegal narcotics, including opiates, also do so responsibly. But because of drug laws they have to hide it or they could lose their job, be ostracised by society or arrested. So the only illegal drug users who openly speak about it are the addicts who have lost control and want to quit or mentally ill people, so they’re the only drug users people see.
Known dosage and purity. People die of overdoses, and of adulterated doses. A vast amount of the horror of krokodil is the production method leading to impurities, and much of the demand for it comes from the lack of other drugs and the ability to cook it up in a garage.
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Sure. Would Walmart start selling fentanyl? Would people buy it?
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So you’re saying it’s a massive problem already… and it’s illegal? Damn, must not be working too great.
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Because the reason there are overdoses is because no one has any idea the strength of any of the drugs they take. Knowing exactly the dose of the drug you’re taking because it’s legally purchased is a gigantic benefit
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A gallon of bleach can kill people, and we sell that in Walmart. People don’t want to die, they want to get high. If you can buy 20, 100 microgram doses, why would you take all 20 at once unless you wanted to die, and if you wanted to die, well, there are more guns than people in the US, trains exist, razors exist… Are we to wrap the entire world in bubble wrap?
Disclaimer: if we have an aligned AGI I may well be for some version of wrapping the world in bubble wrap, but I’m almost certain alignment includes allowing people who truly want to die, to die, but having very few such people because of treatments for depression, a world that doesn’t suck, etc.
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You can buy enough alcohol to kill you in Walmart too
You can buy enough alcohol to kill you in any supermarket here in the UK. Along with other chemicals that could easily kill a person if not used responsibly. Pretty sure you can in the US too. Along with guns if I’m not mistaken, which can also kill if not used responsibly.
If Fentanyl was sold at retail it would probably be in pre-measured doses, like pills.
Your reference to a “massive junkie” concerns me. People often think that the second someone uses drugs they become an addict with no self control. Just as the majority of people who use alcohol do so responsibly the majority of people who consume illegal narcotics, including opiates, also do so responsibly. But because of drug laws they have to hide it or they could lose their job, be ostracised by society or arrested. So the only illegal drug users who openly speak about it are the addicts who have lost control and want to quit or mentally ill people, so they’re the only drug users people see.
Known dosage and purity. People die of overdoses, and of adulterated doses. A vast amount of the horror of krokodil is the production method leading to impurities, and much of the demand for it comes from the lack of other drugs and the ability to cook it up in a garage.
People seem to be accessing it just fine. I’m not saying my opinion would improve the situation, but it would definitely change something.
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Yes.
“We can’t solve the problem so fuck it, let’s increase the problem.”
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Yes and yes