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

Reply to comment by Tomcatjones 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

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.