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you seem to be right, prohibition does not have the effect it was meant to have. but too many people have a job through this regulation as is (police can easil

you seem to be right, prohibition does not have the effect it was meant to have. but too many people have a job through this regulation as is (police can easily improve quotas, prosecutors/legal advice etc., in my country there are medical staff in state institutions doing nothing else but testing people if they used cannabis/again ...), so the resistance is great to change anything.

yogthos 8y ago
I'm pretty sure prohibition had the exact effect it was actually intended to have. There's a reason US prisons are a big business now and US has the highest incarceration rate in the world.
- sonnyblarney 8y ago
  This is not true. Most people do not know how to get hard drugs. If hard drugs were legal, they'd be in soda, candy, food, cigarettes - it would be sold literally on every street corner and grocery store. So the contrast between 'arms reach' and 'most people do not know how to get opium' is quite high. For weed, it's a different story, but for pretty much all other drugs, prohibition has a pretty dramatic effect on supply and demand.
  - yogthos 8y ago
    Weed accounts for a huge portion of incercerations in the states. Also, many of these "hard drugs" like LSD or MDMA have legitimate medical uses. The motivation here was never to protect the public, and if you want to see what that actually looks like check out countries like Netherlands or Germany.
    - sonnyblarney 8y ago
      Having lived in Germany and visited the Netherlands on a number of occasions, I can assure you that opioids, LSD, MDMA are not remotely legal in those areas. They have slightly different take on those drugs, but they are definitely out of bounds. Opioids have legit medical use obviously, and they are legal for those, and even then we have to be very careful.
      - yogthos 8y ago
        I didn't say they were legal there, I said those countries take a different approach to dealing with them.

yogthos 8y ago

I'm pretty sure prohibition had the exact effect it was actually intended to have. There's a reason US prisons are a big business now and US has the highest incarceration rate in the world.

sonnyblarney 8y ago
This is not true. Most people do not know how to get hard drugs. If hard drugs were legal, they'd be in soda, candy, food, cigarettes - it would be sold literally on every street corner and grocery store. So the contrast between 'arms reach' and 'most people do not know how to get opium' is quite high. For weed, it's a different story, but for pretty much all other drugs, prohibition has a pretty dramatic effect on supply and demand.
- yogthos 8y ago
  Weed accounts for a huge portion of incercerations in the states. Also, many of these "hard drugs" like LSD or MDMA have legitimate medical uses. The motivation here was never to protect the public, and if you want to see what that actually looks like check out countries like Netherlands or Germany.
  - sonnyblarney 8y ago
    Having lived in Germany and visited the Netherlands on a number of occasions, I can assure you that opioids, LSD, MDMA are not remotely legal in those areas. They have slightly different take on those drugs, but they are definitely out of bounds. Opioids have legit medical use obviously, and they are legal for those, and even then we have to be very careful.
    - yogthos 8y ago
      I didn't say they were legal there, I said those countries take a different approach to dealing with them.