• @ThrowawayPermanente
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    141 year ago

    I expect us to stop putting people in cages for getting high or helping others do so. We can’t stop them, we tried and we failed.

    • Anomandaris
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      01 year ago

      There’s a really big difference between a college kid dealing weed to his friends and a fentanyl distributor. There are some substances you just can’t allow to move freely through the country.

      Are you aware of how little fentanyl it takes to kill someone? How badly heroin addiction changes people and ruins their lives? I am absolutely in favour of more lax rulings on recreational drugs, but not ones so completely destructive and destabilizing.

      • @[email protected]
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        141 year ago

        Legalize all drugs and treat addiction like the sickness it is. It’s worked very well in several countries already.

        • Anomandaris
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          21 year ago

          Policies like that are about treating the addicts, not the distributors. I absolutely agree on that practice with regards to addicts, but we still need to go after the distributors of these lethal, destructive drugs.

          • @[email protected]
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            91 year ago

            Just regulate them and allow safe amounts to be sold. Legalize drugs and regulate the hell out of the industry. Cartels are no match for the greedy corporations that will jump on the bandwagon and produce their own drugs. Kill cartels completely.

            • @[email protected]
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              71 year ago

              Cartels are essentially the same as multinational corporations. They just have the added benefit of the use of violence. They’ve already entered the legal weed industry.

              Casinos were legal and the mob was all over it. Unions in the NE were controlled be the mob. Legalizing something does not mean organized crime is going away.

              But it would reduce violence and suffering that our current drug laws create so ultimately still better

      • @ThrowawayPermanente
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        81 year ago

        Heroin ruins people’s lives in large part because it’s illegal. If it were legal it would be dirt cheap and these people could live something resembling a normal life without being pushed towards crime every time they need another fix. Nobody takes fentanyl on purpose. None of this would have happened if heroin were treated like the pharmaceutical it is and not mixed with other chemicals by untrained sociopaths.