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Have any governments attempted to provide dosing guidelines for illegal drugs?
The OP asks about dosing guidelines, but a policy with a similar outcome would be to have people use narcan. The health department of New York City has recently recommended that all of its citizens do ...
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Have any governments attempted to provide dosing guidelines for illegal drugs?
Why would they?
Reliable dosing information is already widely available to anyone caring to look
Governments, especially the American one have a really bad track record when it comes to honest ...
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Have any governments attempted to provide dosing guidelines for illegal drugs?
Sure.
Here, for example, is dosage guidance for cocaine in the US.
You might notice that this is for prescription purposes, and that's correct. The overwhelming majority of drugs are "illegal&...
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Have any governments attempted to provide dosing guidelines for illegal drugs?
For Fentanyl specifically, it's impossible to provide meaningful guidance.
It's so potent and is lethal in such small doses(~2mg), that you need lab-grade equipment to dose correctly, while the stuff ...
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Have any governments attempted to provide dosing guidelines for illegal drugs?
Portugal would be one example, since drugs in Portugal were decriminalized a few years back. This means drug users there are treated as patients, not criminals and people are actually educated about ...
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Have any governments attempted to provide dosing guidelines for illegal drugs?
Frame challenge: almost no one actually is looking for fentanyl, they overdose because another drug was cut with fentanyl and the difference between a "safe" amount and a lethal dose is ...
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Have any governments attempted to provide dosing guidelines for illegal drugs?
Why would they?
For a government to publish statements that might be interpreted as "here's how to use the things we are always telling you not to use", is a bad look for authoritative ...
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Have any governments attempted to provide dosing guidelines for illegal drugs?
Offering generic advice of the form up to xxx mg are generally a safe dosage is very hard to give for illegal drugs because one doesn't know the exact quantities of the various ingredients. It is also ...
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