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>The next obvious step is to legalize all drugs, and let these lobbies profit off the back of addicts and their families and their ruined lives. Nah, the next
by rjbwork 6y ago
>The next obvious step is to legalize all drugs, and let these lobbies profit off the back of addicts and their families and their ruined lives.
Nah, the next obvious step is to legalize them and have pure supplies of known purity and dosage distributed by the government at near-cost + tax to exclusively fund social programs and rehab. There's no need to bring profit into it.
Prohibition doesn't work. We've seen it time and time again. Let's be adults about the fact that addicts have, do, and will exist in our societies and take steps the minimize the harms to both them and society at large from their existence.
- anewaccount2021 6y agoWhy would anyone enter rehab if the government is providing free, high-quality drugs?
- deeeeplearning 6y agoYou think people enter rehab because they can't get drugs? What?
- theptip 6y agoMany drug addicts don't actually want to be drug addicts; they started off as drug users and then lost control. Consider if alcohol was free; would you expect alcoholics to still want to enter rehab? I think the answer is quite obviously yes. I think it's a common error of reasoning to think that illegal drugs are very different to alcohol.
- worik 6y agoWhy would they need to?
- triceratops 6y agoTo live a better life.
- mr-wendel 6y agoI'd love to no end if there is a major emphasis on the "rehab" part so the incentives AND disincentives are aligned. Less money flowing? Less need for remediation. More money flowing? More need for remediation. More money than we know how to spend efficiently? Spend it on neglected public infrastructure fixes. Personally, I worry when "sin tax" money is used to fuel unrelated social programs. The incentives are now inverted. If drug usage goes down and the money flow decreases we're jeopardizing the foundation of other important things. Maybe its better to take the money when/where you can get it and deal with the problem down the road? I dunno.
- Noos 6y agoI don't think this works, relevant city journal article here: https://www.city-journal.org/harm-reduction-san-francisco-homelessness-addiction-crisis https://www.city-journal.org/harm-reduction-san-francisco-ho...