Legalizing just lowers the barrier to create new addicts. Drugs and poverty usually correlate and that wont change by making it legal. It just makes the black market drop in price. Look at weed, the black market isnt gone its just cheaper. I dont want to see ten dollar grams of heroine as it will nullify any efforts to get them clean. In my country they dish out free heroine to addicts. They can shoot it up in a clean place. Gets them off the street and in the eyes of the government so they can always take a step to sobriety. That incentive is gone the moment heroine is ten bucks.
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I dunno. I'm on the fence honestly. I mean stuff like weed and microdosing psilocybins I am 100% on board with.
But I've had multiple people that were close to me (being vague intentionally bc you know some of the wokees out there would LOVE to doxx people like us) that have died or seriously had their lives fucked up by drugs. So my gut reaction is shit like heroin, meth, cocaine - burn it with fire and burn down the cartels. OTOH, I get the arguments that making it legal means people ain't buying bathtub batches and could probably get better programs that ween them off the junk and make it hard for the cartel to do business.
I guess I'd be ok with a limited trial to see if the proof-of-concept works in the US at least tho. And I don't mean just decrim everything and turn a blind eye like some Western states have done but something that more closely mirrors the successful programs on the other side of the pond.
I support legalization, but only on the condition that the government fucks off the consequences of what people do. No government money should go to druggies to deal with the consequences of their actions for them. Let them rot for all I care, as long as it's on their own dime.
Infinite judgement and infinite mercy. All drug users who are caught are sentenced to immediate execution, but if they turn themselves in there is free rehab.
But if they relapse they die.
Absolutely not, some drugs when taken will literally mindbreak you, you will never be able to get off them because they will literally rewire your brain especially if you already have issues with addiction/reward mechanisms.
"societal infrastructure...to help people who become addicts"? You mean put the burden on taxpayers to address the social pathologies produced by increased drug use. No thanks.
well, the "burden" is already on taxpayers to pay for enforcement and jailing of such "offenders"
I suppose I think independent of the cost that it's a freedom perhaps that's right to have; it creates unnecessary barriers to people growing their own medicine and being able to freely trade for it and to have it
No point in increasing the burden, which legalization would likely do. Moreover, nobody has a "right" to take money out of my pocket to address their problems. It is also a threat to public safety, motorists on dope can be as dangerous as drunk motorists. Also, people intoxicated on either dope or alcohol are more likely to commit crime than sober individuals. There are studies that show an increased likelihood of schizophrenia with marijuana use. People with schizophrenia are more likely to commit crimes and require either incarceration or treatment at public expense.