Such bullshit. Apparently they're even selling special fentanyl surgical gloves that claim to protect you from getting poisoned from touching fent. Just absolute bullshit.
Such bullshit. Apparently they're even selling special fentanyl surgical gloves that claim to protect you from getting poisoned from touching fent. Just absolute bullshit.
How is this the solution? How is continuing the dependence people have on these drugs the path forward? The communist position is the complete abolition of 'drugs' since it itself is a social category. You can look at China as the prime example, a nation that was addicted to opium had abolished it during the Mao period. The irony is that these types of drugs are obviously not 'safe' since it led to this current crisis in the first place!
There is an existing population that is addicted to opioids, and from what (admittedly little) research I've done into the topic, it seems like some of the most successful ways of getting people off of their addictions is providing a space where they can get easy access to free, safe drugs that also has optional treatment centers for those who want to get clean. If they feel forced, they just won't go at all.
Advocating for tighter control on illegal drugs will, in the US at least, just result in more money going to cops so they can brutalize minorities. I don't think banning recreational drug use would be remotely viable until the very highest stages of communism. For your China example, they have banned many "hard" drugs due to the obvious suffering they caused due to the will of the colonial powers, but they still allow other recreational drugs like alcohol and cigarettes.
China has the history of the opium wars looming over its drug policy. I'm not going to presume what's best for them because I have never lived there.
I do know that in the imperial core the criminalization and prohibition of drugs are used to oppress and enslave racial minorities. There is no justice for any of that while these racist drug laws remain in effect.
Then there's the harm reduction aspect. The prohibition of hard drugs has created an entirely unregulated drug black market where drug users have little to no recourse if their dealer poisons them. This black market remains as a consequence of prohibition in the imperial core so long as we exist under capitalism. That would remain the case even while we exist under socialism during a transition to a communist society. Drugs, especially opioids, are made wildly more dangerous under current conditions. Legalization with tough regulation is the only path forward.
That said, no one should be allowed to profit off of addictive drugs, they should be provided to people for free if they can demonstrate a history of prior use. This is vastly preferable to people getting desperate enough to consider injecting bathtub krokodil or using heavily stepped on mystery powder Heroin.