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I am not so sure about if it was legal there would not be those problems.

Just look at the states where pot is legal. To sell it you have to have a license and it is taxed at a ridiculous rate. It is cheaper to buy it from a guy selling it from his house than to use the government approved dispensaries.

I am sure that even if it was legal there would still be street dealers doing the very things you say contribute to those deaths. And their drugs would probably be cheaper then the dispensary drugs, and we both know drug addicts are usually scrounging for enough money for their next fix. I just think they would go get their fix off the street before coming up with more money to go to a dispensary to get the regulated drugs

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LOL Pot doesn't have the issue of people sticking shit in it that will kill you. And, the private dealers still have to compete with the real dealers - meaning the quality has gone up.

However, you don't have to take my word for it. We have actual data! You can see what happened in Portugal when they legalized drugs. The ODs dropped to pretty much 0%. In other words, we already know what happens 'cause Maine isn't the first place to do so.

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I am aware of the Portugal legalizations. I do not think they set up dispensaries where only the selected few who pay the fees are allowed to sell the way America does it. I thought when I looked into Portugal some years back that everything was completely decriminalized, not some quasi decriminalization where only the selected can sell and if someone who sells not from a dispensary will still be arrested and charged with dealing, all cause they did not tithe the government. It is different there

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Oh, it's only decriminalization at this point - which is Portugal. If you want to see where dispensaries are set up by the government, look at Holland. Once again, the ODs dropped to a trivial percentage. Holland's got the dispensaries.

I'm a betting man. IF the legislation is enacted in Maine, I bet you $100 we see improvements within 3 years. (It'll take that long for the data to come in and be sure it's not just a temporary improvement.) For improvements we'll use number of deaths due to overdosing.

LOL I'm pretty confident that the number of ODs will drop - and drop significantly, just from decriminalization.