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>Imagine if we could figure out how to legitimize it Legalize it and the gangs go bankrupt or pivot to another black market. It's unfortunate many do-gooders
by SOMA_BOFH 6y ago
>Imagine if we could figure out how to legitimize it
Legalize it and the gangs go bankrupt or pivot to another black market.
It's unfortunate many do-gooders are more interested in enforcing their mores on others than working toward harm reduction.
People will always crave drugs and humanity has always had junkies. Embrace this with compassion, not intolerance.
- 77pt77 6y ago>pivot to another black market They're already doing that with the avocado trade.
- gbrown 6y agoYeah, but this is a multi-generational problem - it's important not to give up just because they try to diversify in the moment. Anything that cuts into their margins in the long term makes them weaker, less able to recruit, less competitive for labor. Taking away the black market markups will absolutely hurt these terrible organizations.
- briandear 6y agohttps://www.newsweek.com/some-mexican-cartels-have-begun-human-trafficking-drug-operations-are-disrupted-1501258 https://www.newsweek.com/some-mexican-cartels-have-begun-hum...
- perryizgr8 6y ago> People will always kill and humanity has always had murderers. Embrace this with compassion, not intolerance. See how that "always been like this" logic doesn't make any sense? I have yet to hear a coherent reason why drugs should be decriminalized or legalized.
- KozmoNau7 6y agoWhen you do drugs, you're only really harming yourself. Comparing it to murder is a false analogy.
- wolfhumble 6y agoMaybe sometimes. But it can also have a heavy impact in families and communities. Parents looking for kids doing drugs. Relationships destroyed. Lying. Siblings lacking attention when all the attention is on the drug user. Partners of drugs users abandoned – or hurt – physically, emotionally and economically. The same with their kids. Stealing to stop the craving. Murder is knocking on the door . . . When you have invited substances to take over your mind, you can't be sure that it will let you be the captain on the boat without a heavy fight.
- Catsandkites 6y agoYes it does have those impacts, which is why medical intervention instead of criminalisation should be the norm.
- KozmoNau7 6y agoAbuse, violence, stealing and so on are already crimes in their own right, regardless of whether drugs are involved or not. They directly involve harm inflicted on other people. The act of doing drugs does not, so why make that a crime, too? It's a slippery slope argument, it's like saying cutting yourself should be a crime, because people who cut themselves have issues and could harm others. Just like drug users, they should be helped, not punished.
- dahdum 6y ago> When you do drugs, you're only really harming yourself. Though buying (some) drugs is like buying blood diamonds, funding misery for your own satisfaction.
- HideousKojima 6y ago>When you do drugs, you're only really harming yourself. Tell that to the children of addicts
- sli 6y agoThis type of thinking doesn't help, because jailing addicts doesn't help (or work), either. Addiction robs you of most or all of your agency, it's not so simple as just blaming the addict for their behavior. The current legal status of most drugs in the US has a profoundly net negative affect on drug use and its ripples, not positive, because anyone wanting to help those addict parents risks just having them simply thrown in prison for who knows how long. Until seeking help isn't a massive risk, addicts will always end up helplessly trapped.