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Comment Laws should be for everyone (Score 2) 224

No! The USA should pass laws that apply to everyone. It should not be the government's job to pick and choose who gets an exception to a law. That is how you get corruption. If I have a company that is hurt by tariffs I shouldn't be able to send my corporate jet to take the president to my golf course and get him to exempt my company from the tariffs.

Comment Re:Schedule 1 vs schedule 2 (Re:Meanwhile) (Score 1) 82

Cocaine does have a medical use. I work as an anesthesiologist and see a lot of Ear Nose and Throat cases. 4% cocaine is used as a local anesthetic that also cuts down on blood loss by constricting blood vessels in the nose. Cocaine could be replaced by lidocaine and epinephrine or phenylephrine, but the surgeons I work with seem to like it. Patients are under general anesthesia when cocaine is applied so they don't experience the "rush" and I can not see any effects in the recovery room after. Cocaine is a relatively toxic local anesthetic and surgeons know to use it in small amounts. It is hard to sterilize (heat destroys the molecule apparently) so there is no injectable version that I know of. It belongs in schedule 2 .

Comment Hurricane evacuations won't work (Score 1) 522

I've has one electric car in the household for over 7 years. It's great for daily driving since I charge at home. But now imagine a future where 50% of cars in Florida are EVs and a hurricane requires the evacuation of most of Florida south of Miami. There would be no way to provide fast charging for that many EVs that need to drive over 300 miles all at the same time.

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