Drug War Stories: Grief in Granger, Philosophy of Intervention Fails To Protect Us All

in #war6 years ago


A woman presumably in Indiana, lost two of her sons to what CNN reports was an overdose of hydrocodone and alcohol. Despite state laws utilizing the coercive intervention of the state to mold people into more desireable people, drug laws failed to regulate conduct sufficently to protect these two boys and their community.


Because of criminalization the market doesen't legally allow for health professionals to guarantee purity and ensure only safe doses are used. Despite the unreasonable will of teleologists, the state has proven itself incapable ridding our streets of these dangerous substances. Perhaps actually regulating these things and allowing people the dignity to make bad choices could help those who make bad choices the ability to do so in safer environments and use less money on these habits and have an ability to realize safer less deviant lives. And if people using drugs to escape their terrible lives, decreasing deviance may help them lower the causes of their drug use--or we can keep with the failed policy all this lives and loot twisted into their system currently realizes.


As neurologist Carl Hart discusses, drug users may not all be irrational and there is significant falsification evidence of such a baseless theory. Perhaps intervention, even without coercion that more realistically modeled human nature would realize more aggregate utility or other weights one might consider in centrally planning a society.


It is sad all the people who continue to suffer due to unreasonable laws the government has thus far failed to realize a soceity bounded by these laws. They got nearly 1% of us behind bars here in Murca--many for nonviolent conduct. As sad as it is, this woman who failed to keep her children safe, now wants more unreasonable on the books, very sad the blind leading blind. One might wonder whether this woman derives some business benefits from this crusade for interventions that failed her in the past. Hopefully we will be free someday and help people make better choices, and if they still choose to make a less positive one, make such choices much less dangerous and serious--or we can keep with being unreasonable about human nature and the effectiveness of coercive state intervention insufficiently supported by the civilian population.

Source


https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/20/health/turning-points-becky-savage-opioids/index.html
https://www.mamamia.com.au/becky-savage-opiod-overdose/
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/17/science/the-rational-choices-of-crack-addicts.html


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We have been told for too long already that forbidding something will be the best way to make it stop from happening. That is just lies, especially when dealing with such addicting things like drugs.

People who have at some point become addicts, will do whatever is in their hands to obtein drugs. Whether it's legal or not.

The difference however is in the fact that an illegal product will very likely lack of health measurements and will provoke more anxiety on them, for getting it is more difficult.

By making them leagal, their levels of anxiety will drop and that's something that will be very useful by the time of a detoxification.

great points thank you, I agree!!

The iron law of prohibition states that when a substance (e.g. drugs, alcohol) becomes prohibited, it will begin to trade at more potent doses because it's cheaper to transport. For example, during 1930's prohibition, hard liquor became the drink of choice because you needed less of it for the same effect. But, by keeping it underground, it made it difficult to get a consistent, clean supply, just like with drug prohibition today, meaning quality would change as suppliers are routinely taken out or as they add other ingredients.

yep, very sad prohibition continues--especially in the name of helping society, when it harms everyone

Excellent article, thanks.

Randy E. Barnett really nails it in his article "The Harmful Side Effects of Drug Prohibition"

thanks, sounds interesting, hope you are finding your audience here!!

I think people are finally waking up to the damage this war on drugs has wrought.

hopefully, very sad these failed interventions continue despite obvious failure

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I thought they have plans about this already? What's going on again?

seems their plans are to pack jails with people for victimless conduct and society be damned the consequences of failed drug prohibitions

Nice article and interesting topic to look into

thanks, glad you enjoyed it, hope your weekend goes well for you!!

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