war on drugs
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war on drugs is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between May 24, 2022 and December 06, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “He is very against the war on drugs, which he says costs us trillions of dollars a year”; “the FDA doesn’t fight the War on Drugs”; “You would have to reform the insurance system, the War on Drugs, the medical evidence system, the malpractice system”. It most often appears alongside California, Abolitionist, AntiNazi.
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- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: May 24, 2022
- Last seen: December 06, 2023
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- FREEtheSLAVES! (1 shared issues)
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- HumanRights (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
He is very against the war on drugs, which he says costs us trillions of dollars a year and causes millions of people to be imprisoned (“modern-day slaves”, which makes him a “modern-day abolitionist”).
If we eliminate prescriptions, then how do you get Adderall and painkillers? Remember, the FDA doesn’t fight the War on Drugs - that’s the DEA, a different agency. Many recreational drugs (including dangerous ones like methamphetamine, cocaine, and fentanyl) have accepted medical uses. Right now, you’re allowed to use those drugs with a prescription, but not otherwise. If there’s no prescription system, can everyone buy these drugs at the corner store? Can nobody buy them?
Full abolition of the FDA would have domino effects on every other part of healthcare. You would have to reform the insurance system, the War on Drugs, the medical evidence system, the malpractice system, and the entire role of doctors. All of these other things are terrible and should probably be reformed anyway. But you’d have to do it all at the same time, and get it all exactly right.