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In reply to the discussion: It's his position against the drug war that makes Ron Paul so volcanically controversial here on DU. [View all]Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Heroin is illegal..
No standards for purity or dosage in either case..
Most heroin overdoses are due to varying purity, a user get acclimated to a certain level of potency and then unknowingly gets hold of some much purer drug and uses the same volume as usual and it puts them over the edge..
Make alcohol illegal to the same extent heroin is and watch people drop dead from adulterated rotgut bathtub gin in wholesale numbers.
That's what happened the last time alcohol was made illegal in the USA and it's one of the prime reasons alcohol prohibition was overturned by constitutional amendment a mere thirteen years after it was enacted the same way, a blindingly fast reversal really.
Actually during alcohol prohibition it wasn't illegal to possess or consume alcohol, it was only illegal to manufacture, import or distribute alcohol, in that way alcohol was "decriminalized" at that point in history and it was still a societal disaster.