Tomcatjones t1_ja3yk9d wrote on February 26, 2023 at 5:50 PM

Reply to comment by myusernamehere1 in TIL that from 1991 to 2007, tobacco conglomerate Philip Morris Cos. successfully marketed Capri Sun to children, based on their executives' experience selling tobacco to young people. by 99-bottlesofbeer

The problem with the argument is that meth/amphetamines ARE legal and regulated as prescribed. And can be abused of course

Alcohol is just regularly abused.

Both can be very safe in time, setting, and dose

myusernamehere1 t1_ja5jsed wrote on February 27, 2023 at 12:18 AM

During prohibition, alcohol could be prescribed. This did not stop illegal distilleries from producing alcohol that had unsafe levels of byproducts which caused even worse health effects than alcohol would alone.

I do not see amphetamine/meth being legal to prescribe as an issue with my argument, as we are not talking about medicinal use. They are illegal to use recreationally, unlike alcohol, leading to all sorts of issues.

Tomcatjones t1_ja5k43h wrote on February 27, 2023 at 12:21 AM

That was my point. You can abuse anything legal or not..

myusernamehere1 t1_ja5l1ll wrote on February 27, 2023 at 12:28 AM

I mean obviously. My point is that legality of recreational use has a lot to due with how something is perceived, the amount of available information for harm reduction, and skews the statistics such that only people willing to break the law will do so.