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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Banning alcohol absolutely should be done and has only failed due to half-assed enforcement and lack of social support. We should be supporting addicts with treatment centers and educating on the harms. That is the best way to eliminate it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

good luck with that buddy, your head will be on a spike if you ever actually try something like this

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Not only that, but banning alcohol made it more dangerous because moonshiners and bootleggers resorted to making more and more potent alcohol for transport discretely. The same thing is happening with opioids now. The rise in fentanyl is precisely because it's more potent so it gets concentrated and easier to smuggle and then dilute/cut at its destination, but then of course people start doing the uncut/pure stuff and die.