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Kronic appeared and was quickly banned. Rather, certain substances within Kronic were banned. So what happened? Obviously...
Kronic manufacturers replaced banned substances with not-yet-banned substances.
Is this a surprise? Not really... As I wrote when Kronic first appeared: Laws Create Loopholes. That is, laws are not passed to stop something... Laws are passed in order to allow us to do anything at all which is not specifically banned.
We continue to pass laws which simply define how far we may go without being actually criminal. What we want to do -- I hope! -- is to protect people from harm which is caused by others. (And from harm caused by themselves... but not everyone supports that concept.)
A useful law would define what we want to prevent -- and define it as being illegal.
Do we want to prevent people from being whacked out of their minds? Then pass a law which makes it illegal to be whacked out of your mind.
Do we want to prevent people from harming others while whacked out of their minds? Then pass an appropriate law. Too hard? Then get someone who can write suitable laws!
Mind you... Passing laws that define -- for example -- harming others as being a crime... do not work. All they do is say, what you are now doing is illegal.
To prevent people from harming others requires a major change to our society. Not new laws but new ways of thinking and acting. Are we ready for that?
Not until we agree on what we mean by "harm"...
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