Shut down the War on Drugs.
With recreational pharmaceuticals available at base production cost, those wanting to either indulge or to kill themselves would be free to so do. Drug laws are based on the premise that the citizen is property of the state and thus the state has an interest in not allowing the state property (said citizen) to be damaged by drugs.
Oh, don’t forget that laws against suicide are based on the same Royalist concept - can’t kill the King’s property.
Well - in America we are not the property of the state and neither drug laws or anti-suicide laws should have been passed.
“...[T]he problems went beyond sloppiness and in some cases involved deliberately mishandling drug evidence.”
It sure will be huge. Expensive too. Very, very, very expensive.
This is one of the big reasons that if I were king there would be no death penalty. That said, life behind bars would mean you will die behind bars.
I know this puts me out of step here, but man is fallible, is often not trustworthy, and the government should have no rights that the people don’t have. I can kill you in self defense, but I cannot kill you to punish you. We all know what a justifiable killing is when the individual kills. Why is there a different standard when the individual works for the government?
Sorry to go OT
I wonder what happened? Did she do this intentionally? Did she naively trust her supervisors who may have encouraged this with their lack of due dilligence? Now that it’s been discovered, are they hanging her out to dry to cover their fat a$$es? Was she qualified and trained? Were the supervisors qualified and trained? After 50,000 samples somebody finally noticed. I just think it may not be only the chemist who’s at fault here.