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You can stop putting people in jail for using drugs without legalizing drugs.

• AnthonyMouse 3y ago
  I'm honestly trying to understand why this would be useful. So you want to use drugs and now you know that you can do this without being arrested. But the pharmacy isn't allowed to sell them to you, you have to get them from the black market. You go to the guy on the street corner, you pay money, you get drugs. The law doesn't punish you for this so you can keep trying until you succeed. The law tries to punish him, but he's making money so there are ten thousand guys lined up behind him whenever he gets arrested. If you're the sort of person who uses them irresponsibly you get addicted. Then, because you have to buy them from the black market, what should have cost $10 for a bottle of 100 now costs $10/dose so you resort to stealing to get your fix. If you're the sort of person who uses them responsibly, you think you're getting a dose equivalent of 10mg of the drug but this time it's actually a dose equivalent of 200mg and you get addicted anyway, or overdose. Or the drug is cut with drain cleaner. Meanwhile you still have all the problems with gangs killing each other over territory etc. What advantage does this have over letting people buy drugs at the convenience store?
  • ffgjgf1 3y ago
    > What advantage does this have over letting people buy drugs at the convenience store? Presumably less people use drugs than would do otherwise if their supply wasn’t constrained.