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>Overall, it seems that the highest damage (by orders of magnitude) those substances cause is due to the police involvement. Most of the damage done to a cance
by whatshisface 5y ago
>Overall, it seems that the highest damage (by orders of magnitude) those substances cause is due to the police involvement.
Most of the damage done to a cancer survivor was done by chemo, but that's not an argument against the treatment. The right level to stop at is where adding one more unit of police damage would stop less than one unit of drug damage but like you say nobody knows where that is.
- Clubber 5y agoWe've had a 50 year case study on what harsh criminal penalties for drug use results in. End result? Sky-rocking drug use with increased potency, cheaper prices, and a skyrocketing prison population. I'm not sure you could find a worse outcome. Not only did we worsen the problem we were trying to solve (drug use), but we created two new ones with increased potency of the drugs leading to more deaths, and booming prison population, the largest in the world. It boggles the mind that any rational person would think that to continue going down this path will lead to some sort of improvement. I suspect it's just poor justification for the institution to preserve themselves. Cops gotta have their pensions. What's the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result.