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XorNottoday at 1:04 AM1 replyview on HN

That's just arguing for drug legalization with extra pseudoscience.

I am all for people doing however much cocaine they feel they need. In broad daylight - let's just drag that into the light and let people go to the dispensary for cocaine hydrochloride, metered, measured and with warning labels.

Because the war on drugs is a stupid waste of time and lives, but no doctor or medical professional has to justify your own stupid actions.


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ryandraketoday at 5:21 AM

It’s also an argument for quackery and snake oil, as long as the salesman declares “some people said it works!”

“People should be allowed bodily autonomy to take whatever chemicals they want” easily and dangerously turns into “People should be able to advertise and sell miracle cures that don’t work as long as their victims are gullible.”

Every snake oil fraudster hides their fraud behind principles like bodily autonomy.

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