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		ColanR on July 9, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Six arrested after 'Dutch torture chambers' found > humans have used drugs for millennia That's ignoring the modern refinement of drugs into far more powerful substances than they were even 50 years ago.

heavenlyblue on July 9, 2020 | [–]

Modern medical grade heroin doesn’t not contain a single portion of fentanyl which is already a good example of how safe the progress made the drug.

cranekam on July 9, 2020 | [–]

Well, we can't reverse that now. We need to find other ways to deal with it because what we're doing now is failing everyone.

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