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Narcotics and alcohol aren't the same thing. Even narcotics manufactured by regulated legitimate pharmaceutical companies, are illegal outside of a very tight scope.
The other side puts huge emphasis on words. It started with you can't say "colored people", you have to say "people of color". Which is just saying the same thing a slightly different way.
Mmmm...not quite. "Colored people" was a name used for blacks. People of color means non white.
Maybe someday it will become just "people".
A long time ago when I first got into law enforcement a narcotics investigator told me if we really wanted to stop people from using drugs send out a nationwide message that there is some bad stuff out there and if you use drugs you will die. Then flood the market with drugs that are so potent people will overdose on them. Drug users will die and everyone else will be afraid to use them. Very cynical and extreme I know but fentanyl is actually making that happen now. People are dying from it and the cartels are putting it in everything now so people that don’t even know they’re taking it are dying. The sad thing is people are still taking drugs it doesn’t seem to be having a deterrent effect. Who in their right mind would want to make fentanyl legal?Okay the desire is to decimalize methamphetamine, fentanyl, heroine etc so they're more or less on the same level as alcohol and tobacco.
Decriminalize: stop treating (something) as illegal or as a criminal offense.
Legalize: make (something that was previously illegal) permissible by law.
If you expect someone to discuss things with you in a way that's meaningful, don't play mind games. Just say what you mean rather than being vague, and then complaining that you've exhausted your patience and have to go to bed. That display wore itself out long ago.
Narcotics have a considerably stronger effect on the mind. And are much more addictive, and addiction happens faster. I've been very drunk on hard alcohol before. And one time after a motorcycle accident, I was given morphine. The effect of the morphine was way beyond what I experienced with alcohol.
The dictionary does not dictate what policies are in practice.
For some months.
If Putin had foreseen the reaction in the west, he certainly would not have started the war. It's not Biden that gave him the impression he could get off with just another aggression.
One way to see it is to do a Google image search for "before and after meth" to see what people look like before getting on meth, and what they look like after being addicted to it.
