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Even if hanging drug users is effective, it certainly isn't a conscionable solution. However, I really don't believe that would work anyway. Drug users should
by joshontheweb 11y ago
Even if hanging drug users is effective, it certainly isn't a conscionable solution. However, I really don't believe that would work anyway.
Drug users should be left alone and drug abusers should have access to treatment.
- vidarh 11y agoAnd of course hanging drug users is effective: You necessarily reduce demand if you're brutal enough. Want 100% effectiveness? Pre-emptively hang everyone. War on drugs won... It misses the fundamental point, which is that the goal isn't - or shouldn't be - a drug free society. But to reduce harm. Including to the drug users. Accepting that ruining drug users - addicts or not - lives doesn't reduce harm needs to be the first step, because we seem all too willing to lock them up and ensure their prospects of making a living in any other way than through crime is removed, without considering that these people are also part of the community we are supposedly trying to save from harm.
- lisivka 11y agoWe already know effective anti-epidemic measure: isolation of infected until they all will die. At high level of drug use, hanging of drug users is the only answer.