Hawaii May Become First State in US To Decriminalize ALL Drugs

[bilby]

I'm not talking about recreational drugs. Decriminalization of recreational drugs would reduce crime, reduce harm and reduce usage. I'm talking about drugs like antibiotics.
Overuse of antibiotics has already produces an epidemic of drug resistant bacteria. Deregulation would effectively end the public health revolution they produced and set medicine -- and lifespans -- back 80 years.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/aug/12/the-end-of-antibiotics-health-infections

While I agree that the overuse of antibiotics is a problem, antibiotics was not the subject. It was recreational drugs. That's what the rest of us were discussing.

Possession and use of antibiotics and other prescription drugs is usually not a crime, either. So the question of decriminalizing antibiotics simply doesn't arise, EVEN IF the OP was talking about prescription pharmaceuticals in addition to recreational drugs.

Taking your sister's left-over Amoxycillin is stupid; it is strongly discouraged; and it is, in many jurisdictions, technically unlawful. But it isn't a crime, and nobody is going to go to prison for it.

/derail.

 

[Valjean]

I'm not talking about recreational drugs. Decriminalization of recreational drugs would reduce crime, reduce harm and reduce usage. I'm talking about drugs like antibiotics.
Overuse of antibiotics has already produces an epidemic of drug resistant bacteria. Deregulation would effectively end the public health revolution they produced and set medicine -- and lifespans -- back 80 years.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/aug/12/the-end-of-antibiotics-health-infections

While I agree that the overuse of antibiotics is a problem, antibiotics was not the subject. It was recreational drugs. That's what the rest of us were discussing.

What part of "...Decriminalize ALL Drugs" excludes antibiotics?
Just cause the rest of you ran off on a tangent doesn't change the thread title.

 

[ZiprHead]

See above.

 

[James Brown]