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The_Viscount posted...

Among other things, normalizing the usage can make it even more widespread.

But that doesn't normalize the usage. It just makes it less dangerous.

This isn't something you need to speak in hypothetical terms about. There are plenty of large-scale harm reduction initiatives that you can draw data from to inform your beliefs. Harm reduction works. Whether you feel that's an intuitive result or not, that is the reality of the situation. Overwhelmingly, safe injection sites have been found to improve interest in addictions treatment and reduce overall drug use and addiction rates, on top of making the ongoing drug use that still happens safer.

Now, are needle exchanges and the like (which would encompass this) effective harm reduction measures? That's more debatable. Safe injection/overdose prevention sites (which tend to include needle exchanges) are the gold standard, but large swaths of America would have an aneurysm if efforts were made to establish those en masse because they get off on druggies dying.