[ExI] state of conflict technology

[Henry Rivera]

Regarding removing restrictions on dope being a failure, I respectfully disagree and refer you to this report which is a summary of the heroin maintenance data up to 2015. 

https://findings.org.uk/PHP/dl.php?file=Strang_J_30.txt1

While this isn’t “unrestricted” dope availability exactly, it’s far from prohibition, and I think it represents an approach that has removed so much of the harm associated with using and acquiring unregulated opiates off the black market. I have the original article they summarize if anyone wants it. 

> On Jan 9, 2020, at 12:26 AM, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of
> Keith Henson via extropy-chat
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> Cc: Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [ExI] state of conflict technology
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> <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
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>> I am AGIN it, I tells ya!  All of it, all forms of dope, everything, AGIN
> it!  Bad medicine it is.  Poison.  Toxic to mind, body and spirit.
> 
> That's rather inconsistent with libertarianism.
> 
> Keith
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> On the contrary sir.  I didn't say anything about law, or prohibiting anyone
> from these things.  I unapologetically state my suggestion to leave it all
> alone.  
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> I know there are those who have success with various things, but I also have
> lived long enough to know plenty who do not, plenty who have wrecked lives.
> I went to my 30th high school reunion, I noted who had passed on.  We all
> knew who was the doper crowd back in the day, and who was not.  I could find
> enough representatives of each group to get a statistically significant
> result by comparing the groups.  In general, the non-dopers do better.
> 
> This is perfectly compatible with libertarianism, which recognizes that
> prohibition is a failure.
> 
> Living near San Francisco, I also recognize that removing all restrictions
> on dope is also a failure.
> 
> spike
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