@Nerthulas you literally don't know if he makes that argument.

neither do you

Now you're just strawmanning.

but I know you made it

But such stats are unreliable

Muh empiricism

😂

"muh evidence"

How can the government measure the black market? A market they have zero control over. Why would a citizen openly admit to consuming alcohol at a time where it was a crime? I can't trust the studies methodology.

I've made this argument before and you've completely failed to address it.

"you think that EVIDENCE can cause me to disbelieve in my ideology?!?"

*scoffs*

Yes

I have no reason to trust the evidence.

It's flawed.

its the best measures that we have

You can't measure the consumption of an item on the black market, not effectively. It's the black market.

the measures were consistent

They're unreliable measures.

you want to get rid of the black market?

not really, no

start killing them

death penalty

👏🏿 👏🏿

Not worth considering.

do drugs?

die

there

fixed the whole thing

ideology folks

not even once

this is your brain on it

Poo poo

see, weaboo

i fixed it

you can measure everything

i didn't go to the root cause; I just nuked the whole thing

As punitive measures against drug use in my country have liberalised and accommodation for drug users has increased, in a period of four years, drug related hospitalisations increased by 30%, in 2018 nearly 5,000 people died, equal to about one every two hours

The drugs they are overdosing on are procured ***legally*** from pharmacies

"buuut muh studies! muh numbers!"

Why is empiricism reliable? Why should I trust stats?

"but they're the best we have"

Dosen't change anything. It's not good enough.

"let's just have people do x"