Originally Posted by
dissimulo
Yeah, mostly we create these problems by outlawing substances that are much less harmful and causing the black market to produce products that reduce production and distribution risks.
The slides in the article are what I have come to expect from TV news drug hysteria, like the part where they list the things that the drug makers "mix." It is not as if the users are shooting up gasoline and red phosphorus and the journalists who wrote the article are probably well aware of that. The producers are reacting codeine using some organic solvents and other chemicals to produce desomorphine.
These stories often seem to be designed to produce a reaction, which is to outlaw the latest drug, but that just continues to raise the stakes and put more concentrated, damaging, and foolish drugs on the market. Why not just make opium legal again? In comparison, it is extremely safe.
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