Questions tagged [drugs]
Questions related to drug policies.
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What's the basis for the rumors that Macron takes cocaine? [closed]
There's a French "observer" to the Russian election who says
I think Macron and Zelensky take too much cocaine, and they should stop.
So, since the Zelensky angle has been covered before ...
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Have any governments run user-dissuasion campaigns concerning fentanyl? What were the outcomes?
Fentanyl overdoses present a unique problem to Canadian provinces and US states *.
While few want to return to Nancy Reagan's "just say no" **, it seems to me that the extremely deleterious ...
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Why did it take so long for the U.S. government to give Medicare the power to negotiate prescription drug prices directly with drug companies?
Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through
the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), is sending initial
offers to the participating drug companies of the ...
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Do most countries adopt a "know-your-customers" approach to prevent chemicals from being used by potential drug-traffickers?
Certain precursors used in the production of fentanyl are
internationally classified as unscheduled chemicals and legal to
produce in China and export. Beijing argues that it cannot restrict
the ...
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Have any governments attempted to provide dosing guidelines for illegal drugs?
In the United States, almost 110,000 people died from drug overdoses in 2022, apparently driven largely by fentanyl.
I don't know the biology of it, but it occurs to me that surely something helpful ...
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What is the libertarian solution to the antibiotic resistance caused by massive use of antibiotics in agriculture?
Libertarians are against all (or at least the vast majority of) government regulation. But there seem to be some things for which government regulation is necessary. Like the antibiotic resistance ...
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Why would China be against the U.S. charging companies and individuals for making fentanyl precursors?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmx_pmKUlkc
Why would China be against the U.S. charging companies and individuals for making fentanyl precursors? I don't understand why China would be against this. ...
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How to know if increases in self-reported marijuana usage are real?
Let's take Colorado for example.
Considering the prior existence of penalties for marijuana use, it is reasonable to expect that people may have been less inclined to admit their marijuana usage prior ...
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Have most/all state-level cannabis legalization laws been preceded by referendums?
Seems to me each round of US elections lately has a batch of cannabis referendums riding in it.
Recreational marijuana legalized in 2 states, rejected in 3 in 2022 election referendums
Currently, 21 ...
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Why didn't Democrats legalize marijuana federally when they controlled Congress?
A notable majority of the US is supportive of legalizing marijuana, with Democrats having a much higher level of support, and Biden's own platform including legalizing it. Given the overwhelming ...
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What makes Brittney Griner more worthy of a prisoner swap?
My guess is that there are thousands of USA citizens convicted of foreign crimes (and held in prison in foreign countries), and hundreds with a misdemeanor nature similar to that of Brittney Griner's ...
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Why are passengers inspected so thoroughly for drugs when most drugs enter through ports and the majority of shipping containers aren't controlled?
According to icontainers.com, only 2-10% of all shipping containers are inspected.
What is the rationale for very thoroughly searching passengers and their belongings for drugs, when a simple opening ...
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After stopping production of opium, how does Afghanistan's government plan to offset the lost inflow of money going forward?
Thought some of the sources it cites are ten years old or more, Wikipedia's Afghanistan; Economy; Agriculture says
Agricultural production is the backbone of Afghanistan's economy and has ...
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Why did Putin call Ukrainian officials “drug addicts”?
Among other things, Putin has called the Ukrainian leadership a “band of drug addicts” (source) shortly before invading Ukraine in 2022.
This seems like a strange accusation. He could have simply ...
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Why must Canadian cannabis be packaged in child-proof containers, but not Alcohol/Tobacco?
The Cannabis Act and the Cannabis Regulations lay out a set of guidelines that regulate the packaging requirements for Cannabis distribution in the country. Among the more basic and expected ...
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