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AZJonnie

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19. Some might, but they are inherently very different drugs

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat Dec 6, 2025, 01:26 PM

Dec 6

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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If Trump is killing off cocaine drug runners (in Venezuela boats) so there will be less [View all] applegrove Dec 6 OP

He isn't killing any cocaine mules, he is pardoning them. Ferrets are Cool Dec 6 #1

Pardon drug traffickers Norrrm Dec 6 #7

I think he's demanding payoff from the cartels, for safe passage for their boats. Emile Dec 6 #2

It won't have the slightest effect except short term price increases. Blues Heron Dec 6 #3

The gqpcia is the largest illegal drug dealing organization in the us. Clouds Passing Dec 6 #4

So sorry for your loss. applegrove Dec 6 #8

Thank you applegrove. Me too. Clouds Passing Dec 6 #9

I don't have kids. I can't imagine how hard it is to applegrove Dec 6 #10

... Clouds Passing Dec 6 #11

I'm so sorry for your loss. yardwork Dec 6 #15

I'm very sorry for the loss of your son, Clouds Passing. brer cat Dec 6 #20

Trump's republicans smuggle fentanyl. Norrrm Dec 6 #5

Yup purr-rat beauty Dec 6 #12

According to the Bulwark cocain prices are down Johonny Dec 6 #6

Less fish in Venezuela... lame54 Dec 6 #13

Fentanyl is an opoid - an analgesic and sedative muriel_volestrangler Dec 6 #14

I just heard on the news cocaine, heroin and precursor chemicals applegrove Dec 6 #17

Exactly, two very different types of drugs. Emile Dec 6 #18

Even if those boats had cocaine on them - which I doubt - yardwork Dec 6 #16

Some might, but they are inherently very different drugs AZJonnie Dec 6 #19