A new study shows that overdoses in the Pacific Northwest have increased despite decriminalization laws, not because of them.

“There’s always the hope that states function as laboratories of democracy, and when one state does something that makes sense and seems to work, that other states will adopt it,” says Davis. “Arrests went way down, overdoses didn’t change: To me, that’s an improvement over the previously existing system.”

  • Zink@programming.dev
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    9 months ago

    Damn right people need to see alcohol for what it is. I’m not anti-alcohol but I’m also not a regular drinker.

    I live in a state where you can get cannabis with a medical card. I would never dare bring it to work, on a plane, and I try to avoid crossing state lines with it.

    But with alcohol, while its probably not cool to drink at my desk, if I am at a business dinner I often order a drink just to not be the oddball of the group, and I get to hear my boss discuss his preferred drinks.

    And yet alcohol kills people every day, and I even have an uncle who died from what it did to his body. He was the youngest and in extremely good shape.

    But then the weed that we must speak about in hushed tones causes… checks notes… happiness and comfort at the cost of, uh, making you lazy?