Bryan Calcott
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That's the part that people don't want to accept, is that fentanyl is a direct result of the prohibition against drugs.
But once again, that goes back to statistics.
Only about 10% of people who use drugs are actually addicts.
The majority of them are high-functioning people.
And maybe that's the problem.
So there's an interesting question.
Let's say that 10% represent the group that you're talking about.
They're addicted to drugs.
They commit crime in order to support their habit.
90% don't.
So then does the government really have the right to tell these 90% of people, not only do you not have the right to use that drug that you can responsibly use, but we're actually going to create an environment where
where it's gonna be more dangerous for you to use that drug.
Because now if you're buying ecstasy, if you're buying all these things, you have to buy it on a black market where there's no regulation.
And now this whole group over here, that if they had safe access to drugs, even heroin, they wouldn't overdose.
You know who agrees with you?
California liberals.
You know what, though?
They don't, though.
I'm sorry, but when you are in the public space, public safety has to be fucking number one.
In any society who lets public safety go to the point where people don't feel safe when they're in the public space, like we were just talking about Vince, or to the point where you have armed people coming to your house and there is a five-month-old baby inside,