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Economics
If you really want to talk about money why don't you analyze the entire situation under an economic lens?
-What gets covered under insurance costs?
-Will insurance costs change?
-Who would cover these costs?
-Are taxpayers going to want to cover treatment, recovery, emergency expenses, etc. of people who made the decision to choose drugs? If you think the government shouldn't cover it, then who would?
-If people are willing to steal for items costing a few bucks, would this really change things?
-What is a drug? How are these drugs different from painkiller prescription medications?
-What are the costs involved with literally destroying the pharmaceutical industry by disolving their intellectual property rights?
-What would the strain be on the FDA?
-What are the costs of developing an entirely new system to provide checks and balances similar to pharma's?
-Who pays when things go wrong? Would the government be liable?
-What kind of countries would develop these "drug" economies?
-What kind of trouble do you run into when an economic system becomes one product (think banana countries)?
-Rudey
--If reading that didn't make you want to smoke Jade, I don't know what would.
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