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The argument is this: once Limitless tons of drugs are available to those who are prone to addiction, the faster they will die, and the faster they will leave the gene pool, and the faster the master race will rise from the mud and take to the stars and exploiting every stom in the universe for Maximum profit and then find God and strangle him to death, exactly as the founding fathers of commanded.
find God and strangle him to death ON PAY-PER VIEW, exactly as the founding fathers of commanded.
Prohibition has been tried and is tried now, has not worked, so will not work in future.
As long as prohibition gives the god and guns crowd hard dicks and gets the politicians pandering to them reelected
Of course, there is the minor issue of families watching their (previous) loved ones flushed down the toilet to become segregated, dying drug zombies in hordes. For some reason, the families don't accept this too well.
Cannabis usage is a gateway out of hard drugs
I think 50% or more of all federal prisoners are drug relatred.
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You cannot stop drugs from being produced and used by arresting people. All you can do, in the end, is create a violent subculture and illegal marketplace, powered by people shooting one another because they can't sue over their disputes.
The solution is to legalize and regulate all of it, from weed onward. For weed and its derivatives this means a liquor-store like system, much as some states have now. For hard drugs it means selling them in pharmacies over the counter to anyone who can prove they're 21, properly labeled and regulated as to purity and strength -- and to have medical outreach on the streets and available to provide support and intervention for those who want treatment.
It's easy to be skeptical of the idea of a van rolling around with a psychologist and medical workers in it, providing needles but insisting they be used on-the-spot and returned (so as to prevent what you have in San Francisco), along with handing out methadone on a daily basis to those who want to try to get and stay clean and -- in the meantime -- remain productive in society. But what do we have now? Tens of thousands of people dying, streets littered with used (and dangerous) needles and junkies defecating on the street, never mind dealers shooting one another over territorial and payment disputes.
Getting off our high horse and facing reality is a better option and the only way we're going to stop this epidemic.
I think this is the only rational conclusion. Prohibition has been tried and is tried now, has not worked, so will not work in future. Trying to do the same over and over and expecting a different result is insanity.