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Do you support the return of prohibition of alcohol, then, but keeping it "decriminalized"? I think a lot of this fear that legalizing drugs will lead to a bun
by eeeeeeeeeeeee 8y ago
Do you support the return of prohibition of alcohol, then, but keeping it "decriminalized"?
I think a lot of this fear that legalizing drugs will lead to a bunch of non-drug users suddenly becoming drug addicts is simply hysteria. People use illegal drugs to self-medicate some other problem; healthy people are not suddenly going to want to be crack users.
A lot of the hysteria in Colorado prior to marijuana legalization was that youth consumption rates would increase. The opposite happened:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/12/11/following-marijuana-legalization-teen-drug-use-is-down-in-colorado/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/12/11/follo...