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Lol, wtf.

Humans do not exist as entities to serve businesses for the grand goal of entrepreneurship. I tend to believe people that think this way have their own work addictions that are just as harmful as addictions to substances.

Furthermore your 'decrease in entrepreneurship' should be suffixed with 'where I am'. And when you put 'where I am' suddenly you'll run into a bunch of much more likely culprits such as 'administrative burden and bureaucracy', 'IP and copyright laws/legal complications', 'successful large businesses paying knowledge workers and keeping them out of the self market', 'tax burdens for self employed workers'

Drugs is going to be so far down that list in most places that it's not a serious consideration.




Maybe, maybe not. I don't know, neither do you. I'd like to see some studies.


Then Google it, there is plenty of research, otherwise you're JAQing off users that are pre-biased against drugs. Not a single serious study I see in the list (and these are across multiple countries) has hedonism anywhere on list of the most pertinent problems.

The Congressional Budget Office writes plenty about this and throws out statements like the following

>Some economists are becoming concerned about diminished competition among firms—especially those firms involved in Internet-based commerce—and its harm to entrepreneurship, and about the impact of noncompete clauses

Information technology has drastically changed the business landscape in such a way that it no longer looks or acts like the pre-internet world. Furthermore global marketplaces like Amazon allow entrepreneurs to exist outside of the countries doing the counting.


Maybe, that's true. But this isn't an article about those problems, it's an article about legalizing drugs.

I don't think it's true that it is harmless to society, and I don't think we fully understand what the ramifications will be.


Harmless doesn't exist and you can never reach it. If you want harmless have AI lock you in a bubble and feed you pulp and happy thoughts in your own bubble universe.

What you're looking for is the principle of least harm. Time and time again we've proven that banning drugs is not the least harmful option. It turns out that humans really love vice which causes even more harmful black markets. We have lots of articles and information about drugs and their effects on society, you were attempting to link it to entrepreneurship of which from what can be seen is a very tenuous link at best.


I agree with you, as you would notice if you saw my other comments in this thread. But I'm wondering about the harms to society that we don't fully understand yet, and how we can mitigate them.

Legalizing alcohol was for the best, because it eliminated the organized crime aspect. But it came with serious harms to society that we really haven't done a good job of mitigating. Alochol destroys so many lives and kills so many people each year.

I'm asking, how we can not make that mistake again. To be clear, whatever the harms of normalized cannabis use in society, it will be far less than alcohol.




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