So is bleach, that doesn’t inherently justify anything past a warning label.

People rarely die from taking bleach (except when they want to).

About 100,000 die annually from drugs in the US alone.

And people "high" on bleach never killed or injured anybody.

	▲	Retric 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		In the US, “unintentional poisoning deaths numbered 75,761 in 2023” > About 100,000 die annually from drugs in the US alone. A single substance vs all drugs including prescription, over the counter, and hard drugs while including suicide etc is hardly the support you think it is. Further actually using the correct numbers and then trying to justify US drug policy based on hard drug overdoses fails when you look at hard drug overdoses in other countries. US numbers are high not because it’s an hard problem, but because our policy is bad.