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MethDozer · M
Yes, absolutely. The war on.Drugs has accomplished nothing ( especially when talking about cocaine) but allow a very lucrative market for violent psychopaths ( cartels) and desperate violent hooligans( street gangs) to become wealthy and find a highly profitable system that encourages and rewards their violent and psychopathic ways. To that effect it has done very little to curb availability and done absolutely nothing in terms of demand or use and has only served to exponentially increase the dangers of it and associated criminality.
We are much safer and protected with legalization and regulation than with prohibition. Alcohol Prohibition has proven this. As have all the current trends of cocaine use and distribution. There really isn't any logically sound argument in favor of keeping it illegal given our historical.records of prohibition the world over. Throughout.history and the world it has always made a problem a much worse one. Now ask yourself " for what?", because it is unsettling to many of us and addiction is icky? Sorry but those aren't good enough reasons to call validation if we are to logical and reasonable in order to improve things in society.
It also makes it harder for addicts to.seek help and removes any possibility of harm reduction. Which should be the actual focus.
We are much safer and protected with legalization and regulation than with prohibition. Alcohol Prohibition has proven this. As have all the current trends of cocaine use and distribution. There really isn't any logically sound argument in favor of keeping it illegal given our historical.records of prohibition the world over. Throughout.history and the world it has always made a problem a much worse one. Now ask yourself " for what?", because it is unsettling to many of us and addiction is icky? Sorry but those aren't good enough reasons to call validation if we are to logical and reasonable in order to improve things in society.
It also makes it harder for addicts to.seek help and removes any possibility of harm reduction. Which should be the actual focus.
NankerPhelge · 61-69, M
JohnOinger · 41-45, M
JohnOinger · 41-45, M
@JohnOinger I plan to legalize it when I'm president in the future
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AnonymousJSS · 22-25, F
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@AnonymousJSS those 3 drugs have ruined my life and many others too. I don’t think they should be legal. They should make MDMA and halloucinogens legal as those drugs are near impossible to abuse or fall addicted to.
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MethDozer · M
@Elessar Illegalization has increased associated violence exponentially and costs the public much, much more in terms of health problems, violence, and financial costs. All that and it hasn't done anything worth noting to decrease use or availability. It doesn't work to mitigate any of the problems and only increases them for all those around. It's a proven failed plan.
Look at alcohol. The same things can be said for alcohol and the problems still exist, yet Prohibition and its repeal proves that the problems are bigger when a vice is made illegal and decreased when legalized and actually regulated.
Making aomethi g illegal is just giving up and throwing hands in The air saying we aren't actually going to do anything about it.
Look at alcohol. The same things can be said for alcohol and the problems still exist, yet Prohibition and its repeal proves that the problems are bigger when a vice is made illegal and decreased when legalized and actually regulated.
Making aomethi g illegal is just giving up and throwing hands in The air saying we aren't actually going to do anything about it.
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MethDozer · M
@basilfawlty89 Totally. Offing a few junkies with a hot shot in a new batch is a marketing strategy. A few users OD and the rest are running to buy that strong shit.
Sure, I find heroin use absolutely vile and users as by and large absolutely loathsome. But that doesn't justify the costs to society through criminalization. Just fire them from work and cut them out of your personal life.
Sure, I find heroin use absolutely vile and users as by and large absolutely loathsome. But that doesn't justify the costs to society through criminalization. Just fire them from work and cut them out of your personal life.
basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M
@MethDozer I don't use any illegal drugs personally, pot is legal here, but I rarely smoke it. I mainly just drink alcohol and use nicotine.
That said though I don't find junkies loathsome. Most junkies I've met have had really shitty lives and developed their addiction by way of maladaptive coping. I sympathize with them. I don't believe in cutting them off from society. I feel their should be community support and resources allocated for them to either recover or if they are gonna use, use safely.
That said though I don't find junkies loathsome. Most junkies I've met have had really shitty lives and developed their addiction by way of maladaptive coping. I sympathize with them. I don't believe in cutting them off from society. I feel their should be community support and resources allocated for them to either recover or if they are gonna use, use safely.
MethDozer · M
@basilfawlty89 I absolutely find them so. Because if what the substance does to the heart and soul of them. However, I would rather lift them up out of it when they want to be than to kick them down and keep them there. And yes, I would rather then be alive and as healthy as possible with their addiction than again, to kick then down even further. There's a sympathy and repulsion there. That's duality.