Padawanbater2
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I'd like to see some greaseball politician argue against this
I'd like to see some greaseball politician argue against this
Not necessarily. If you go on further in the video, you'll hear the guy state something along the lines of, those who use these drugs illegally, are already willing to break the law in order to use them.I had to stop before 30 seconds because the problem with this kind of thinking is that most people using hardcore drugs manage to hurt those of us who do not, in one way or another; be it breaking our car window to steal a few quarters, hitting someone with their car and having no insurance, robbery, or eating someone's face while running around naked.
Crack, meth, heroine, etc make people do some crazy shit.
Agreed. Instead of doing the logical thing... taxing drugs in regards to their legalization, we will tax people based on hypocrisy, lies, and the subsidization of other's irresponsibility.After my second post, I did go back and hear the man out, but it did not change my mind. Comparing the US to Portugal or Holland is ridiculous. Drug users in many other countries are frowned upon and considered the scum of society (even weed), so it makes sense that not much would change. Also, they do not have the enormous budgets allocated to fighting the war on drugs. There is alot of pork in them barrels.
If we taxed the drugs to pay for all of the healthcare and rehab, and shifted the money from the police (arresting drug users) to encarcerating those who get out of control, we might have something.
The topic is not decriminalization. It is re-legalization.I did notie how in Switzerland, when they opened up clinics to give people heroin, their lives did improve. crime decreased, and I think drug related fatalities?
But part of me still cannot condone the legalization of drugs like meth, crack, etc... If there were clinics like in switzerland that gave only an alloted amount of those hard drugs and then slowly weaned people off id be all for it... but complete dicriminalization seems like an open pass to enable addicts, whereas the clinic option allows people to get back to a healthy lifestyle, and got them off of drugs and productive in society.
Pretty much this.The topic is not decriminalization. It is re-legalization.
Decriminalization can suck on a fat wiener. It solves nothing.
If a crackhead wants to crack himself to death, no loss.
If a tweaker wants kill herself with that nasty shit, I won't shed a tear.
We've all seen how successful Prohibition has been in preventing use and access to those illicit substances.
Better to remove the expenses and problems associated with prohibiting them.
Screw giving anything to anyone in a clinic or anywhere else.
Remove the artificial pressures associated the black market thanks to Prohibition, and the prices will take care of themselves.