Drugs, 500 times stronger than heroin, taking Australian lives?

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/03/nitazenes-synthetic-opioid-drug-500-times-stronger-than-heroin-fatal

by wslh • 9 months ago

18 5 9 months ago

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caterama• 9 months ago

“Consuming any illicit drug or substance could be fatal. You don’t know what you’re taking.”

If we legalized, taxed, and regulated drugs this wouldn’t happen.

mna_• 9 months ago

taxed

You'd still have these dodgy imports by people/gangs wanting to evade taxation.

znpy• 9 months ago

People tend to assume things would go according to their fantasy mental model on this topic, but I strongly believe that legalisation of strongly addictive substances would pave the way for an illegal market for stronger and cheaper illegal drugs, untaxed and unregulated.

Addicted people don’t reason the same way as non-addicted people.

shadyKeystrokes• 9 months ago

They run capitalism in its purest form

partomniscient• 9 months ago

Jarrod Bleijie: “The only people that benefit from illegal drugs and pill-testing is bikie criminal gangs.”

Fuck I hate politicians who think appearing tough is more important than harm(/death) minimisation which is what pill-testing enables.

Drugs, 500 times stronger than heroin, taking Australian lives?

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