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AZJonnie

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19. Some might, but they are inherently very different drugs
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 01:26 PM
9 hrs ago

Uppers vs Downers, essentially. And neither drug can be substituted to significantly mediate the effects of withdrawals from the other. There's not nearly the same direct line as the one that can be drawn between, say, the stricter enforcement of Rx laws over pharmaceutical opioids leading to more people taking (much more deadly) illicit fentanyl and heroin.

But sure, there would some who might switch to the opioids if cocaine were unavailable, with potentially deadly consequences. It's likely a lot more would turn to meth though, as it's much more similar to cocaine in effect.

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He isn't killing any cocaine mules, he is pardoning them. Ferrets are Cool 12 hrs ago #1
Pardon drug traffickers Norrrm 12 hrs ago #7
I think he's demanding payoff from the cartels, for safe passage for their boats. Emile 12 hrs ago #2
It won't have the slightest effect except short term price increases. Blues Heron 12 hrs ago #3
The gqpcia is the largest illegal drug dealing organization in the us. Clouds Passing 12 hrs ago #4
So sorry for your loss. applegrove 12 hrs ago #8
Thank you applegrove. Me too. Clouds Passing 12 hrs ago #9
I don't have kids. I can't imagine how hard it is to applegrove 12 hrs ago #10
... Clouds Passing 12 hrs ago #11
I'm so sorry for your loss. yardwork 10 hrs ago #15
I'm very sorry for the loss of your son, Clouds Passing. brer cat 9 hrs ago #20
Trump's republicans smuggle fentanyl. Norrrm 12 hrs ago #5
Yup purr-rat beauty 11 hrs ago #12
According to the Bulwark cocain prices are down Johonny 12 hrs ago #6
Less fish in Venezuela... lame54 11 hrs ago #13
Fentanyl is an opoid - an analgesic and sedative muriel_volestrangler 10 hrs ago #14
I just heard on the news cocaine, heroin and precursor chemicals applegrove 10 hrs ago #17
Exactly, two very different types of drugs. Emile 10 hrs ago #18
Even if those boats had cocaine on them - which I doubt - yardwork 10 hrs ago #16
Some might, but they are inherently very different drugs AZJonnie 9 hrs ago #19
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