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> The drug trade creates very real social problems The drug war creates those problems. A legal (or maybe just decriminalized) drug trade would eliminate most
by stronglikedan 6y ago
> The drug trade creates very real social problems
The drug war creates those problems. A legal (or maybe just decriminalized) drug trade would eliminate most of them.
- luckylion 6y agoProhibition, not war. You don't need a war on drugs to create those situations, as France currently proves, you need prohibition. It's the laws that create the incentives, not how crazy you enforce them.
- jeffreyrogers 6y agoI mostly agree with that, however, they are still not victimless crimes.
- jansan 6y agoSo the whole OxyContin scandal is based on false accusations? What we had here was a quasi-legalization of drugs that should be strictly regulated. It destroyed families, lives, whole communities. This is what you get if you fully legalize drug trade. It's insanity.
- stronglikedan 6y agoIf addiction were not stigmatized, in (very) large part due to the war on drugs, there would not be a OxyContin scandal. Legalization has nothing to do with that.
- Reelin 6y ago> It destroyed families, lives, whole communities. This completely unfounded moral panic is what fuels the vast majority of organized crime (among other things) throughout the world.