The Cooper Davis Act would force tech companies to report suspected drug activity to the government. Experts say it would be a disaster for digital privacy.

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    Funny how alcohol addicts are allowed to participate in society normally though while no one in any high paying job is allowed to smoke a joint.

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      Alcohol, cigars and then… cocaine, LSD, crack? Are you honestly making this comparison?

      Could you look someone in the eye and tell that cocaine and tobacco are the same thing?

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        • alcohol deaths per year: 140,000
        • tobacco deaths per year: 480,000
        • cocaine deaths per year: 15,000 (including crack)
        • opioid deaths per year: 68,000
        • LSD deaths per year: 0
        • cannabis deaths per year: 0

        Our drug war is a fucking farce. It is, and always has been, a fascist culture war.

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          Now we’re talking, I like to see numbers and data. You’re clearly different from the others here.

          Now go a biiit further and check usage statistics for alcohol, cocaine and opioids. Is it the same number of people using all three?

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              Now, now, I wonder how many dozens of millions of people are using cocaine each year.

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                Cocaine is not particularly dangerous. Oddly enough opioids are safe if, and only if, the user knows the specific opioid being used and it’s actual purity and doesn’t use improper techniques to use it. It doesn’t usually kill or cause major medical issues if the dosage and purity are known and clean needles are used. Alcohol is a medical issue at basically any dosage. There is no safe way to consume it. Tobacco is in the same category: all use is harmful, smoking is excessively harmful.

                The point is we tolerate obviously harmful drugs, some of us refuse to admit they are drugs, or put them in some category where they should not be considered when discussing drug abuse. Why do people do this? As I said, it seems very much to be a cultural issue. Alcohol and tobacco, by far our most lethal drug abuse problems, are accepted as part of ‘our’ culture. By ‘our’ I mean the dominant European Christian culture- white people. The ‘bad’ drugs are all associated with ‘outsiders’, people not part of the dominant culture. Quite obviously also this cultural categorization is racist bullshit. White people are just as likely to be using the ‘bad’ drugs as non white people. So it’s an ideological campaign to justify what has become a corrupt government/capitalist ‘complex’. The failed drug war pumps billions of dollars into the private sector. There is no motivation to stop what is a quite successful system as far as the recipients of all that loot are concerned.

                But certainly just simply adopting a harm reduction approach instead of continuing the idiocy of criminalization cannot be taken seriously. After all we cannot compare cigars to LSD.

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          Maye LSD is “less bad” than the others, fine. I’m not a drug connoisseur.

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            That was obvious when you posted cocaine then crack.

            It showed that not only are you not a connoisseur, but your understanding of drugs is most likely mainstream fiction and copaganda regurgitated as news.

            Crack is just cocaine that has been processed so you can smoke it instead of snorting or injecting it.

            Disclaimer: don’t Fuck around with cocaine, it dumps your dopamine and eventually makes it impossible to feel happiness outside of continued use, and the use diminishes in its dopamine dumps

            Edit: I didn’t even read the comment two up, they had the same assessment, lol

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              Disclaimer: don’t Fuck around with cocaine, it dumps your dopamine and eventually makes it impossible to feel happiness outside of continued use, and the use diminishes in its dopamine dumps

              Thank you for agreeing with my anti-drug agenda. You are correct in this sentence, we must ban cocaine immediately and persecute anyone involved in its production and distribution.

              I wish you a long life, dear friend, even though I know you’ll die young.