How about close the border? Southern states don’t need to legalize drug use nor should they. No states should. |
He wasn’t in a southern state so your argument is crap. |
If you find someone unconscious, then you give Narcan whether you know they took drugs or not. It supposedly doesn’t harm a person if they are given Narcan but didn’t actually take drugs. |
Just because you are sad by proxy doesn’t make PPs statement untrue. It’s the opposite of ignorance to know that most drug deaths do not, in fact, occur during the very first use |
They definitely do. I used to work in a job where we encountered people who did. Some people take it to get high. They do. |
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I live in a southern state and have a medical marijuana card. We even have a few dispensaries. So the blanket southern statement is false.
The reasons kids don't use a legal dispensary is because it costs for that card, weed is expensive there, they all think they are smarter and know street drugs. Unfortunately it doesn't end well. Eric Bolling's son comes to mind. But then something else comes into play. Especially the date of this death. |
I remember how hard I rolled my eyes about the book. I don’t think people understand how much of their (parenting) success is due to luck. |
You may think it's ignorant but it is a true statement. Poke a rattlesnake and you have a 100% chance of being bit Take illegal drugs and you have a 100% chance of dying. |
| Andy Reid son died back in 2012 in PA after an OD. It sad can happen to anyone |
The dealers are not making the drugs most of the time. If you are selling a narcotic or opioid on the black market, you might use fentanyl to make the drug give a bigger high for a cheaper cost. So you make more money. They aren’t really trying to kill people, but these are perfect chemists. And every one is different. So many people could maybe take a fake oxy and be just very high. Another person could die from the same dose. So the dealers might not know if they are pushing oxys that are just oxy or ones with fentanyl. Or they maybe do know, but they also know the habitual users have a high tolerance. Those are their best customers. And the least likely to die from one bad pill. The occasional user is MUCH more likely to die from just one use. It’s a huge complicated problem. And yes it means lots of “good kids” are dying from simple experimentation that many others have done with no repercussions. |
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This is a good article explaining the issues and our many policy failures around it:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2022/dea-fentanyl-failure/ |
Apparently not that amazing
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What do you mean about the date? |
I don’t think you have a good handle on percentages |
I think they meant a high probability of dying. You get the point. |