Why does nobody understand what decrminalizing actually means.
It doesn't mean legalize. It doesn't mean it isn't against the law still. All it means is it isn't a criminal offense anymore. It still carries penalties
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If you mean marijuana, scrap that idea in Canada. If you are talking harder drugs, like how Portugal decriminalized, it means to remove stigma, allow for drugs to be seen as a health issue instead of criminal. I don't know why it's so hard, either? Maybe it's from carries penalties?
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@MethDozer I agree with you. I try not to look upon it as a moral issue, though society does, and instead see it as a health issue, but society loves to moralize those issues, so maybe it's the best way to reach people? If I bring up Cancer, many would see I am moralizing an issue, especially if I bring up drugs and it leads to a very similar sad end. To me, it's a health issue, only.
MethDozer · M
@SW-User It is a health issue and also a personal choice and sovereignty issue. I only see it as a moral issue on how we treat it as a criminal and moral failing issue. Our policies just make a devastating reality worse.
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@MethDozer That's the only way I see it as a moral issue. How society treats. I don't think anyone wants the feeling of what a drug addict goes through. I do think money is an addiction issue though.
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MethDozer · M
@bijouxbroussard yep. Exactly it just means it doesn't go on your record or lands you im handcuffs. Yet everyone always seems it means legalization.