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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SW-User
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?
MethDozer · M
@SW-User it means the samething here and everywhere
SW-User
@MethDozer Care to translate?
MethDozer · M
@SW-User Nothing to really ttanslate. It's as straightforward English as it can possibly get.
SW-User
@MethDozer To you. But I've learned your style in communication.. So which is it? It could be, don't do drugs, will look down on you or the world is a fool's errand when it looks that way?
MethDozer · M
@SW-User can you translate that?
SW-User
@MethDozer How am I to read your constant sarcasm? How's that? I gave things to talk about before... but those were ignored.
MethDozer · M
@SW-User rhat wasn't actually sarcasm. I have no idea what your trying to ask.
SW-User
@MethDozer will make it redundantly clear for you, is Portugal on the right path with decriminalizing drugs?
MethDozer · M
@SW-User Yes.100%.
SW-User
@MethDozer Well there is some people who would use that line of argument against decriminalizing. I did not know if you were being sarcastic or not... sorry.
SW-User
@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.
SW-User
@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.