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Originally posted by Not Me
I think dying from an OD of heroin sure beats the hell out of dying because you shot us because you hate drug users or being thrown in jail for 20 years for getting high.
This story is yet another reason to legalize drugs - so that we can regulate the purity/impurity and people can do them without dying.
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If people obeyed the law and didn't sell drugs, we wouldn't have:
1.) users dying from an OD of heroin;
2.) dealers dying in a violent competition for sales territory;
3.) innocents getting caught in the crossfire of dealers' competition;
4.) hundreds of thousands less felony convictions every year;
5.) huge expenditures for police, courts and prisons.
And I don't hate anyone. I've only been arguing that people should obey the law. Thus,
I think being alive and free sure beats the hell out of dying from an OD of heroin or dying because I shot you or being thrown in jail for 20 years for getting high.
This story is yet another reason for people to obey the law until enough of change agents can change the law. Obeying the law seems like the best way to avoid overdosing, getting shot, or getting convicted and jailed on my dime.
And this whole story sucks. I see these stories about ODs and feel sorry for the parents 80% of the time. They didn't raise their kids to die at 35. Speaking of which, safe? The oldest "victim" out of 34 was 57, and that seemed like an aberration. I gotta wonder how many years heroin takes off a user's life.
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