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you're right, we should make all drugs cheap too!
by pikamau5 3y ago
you're right, we should make all drugs cheap too!
- c048 3y agoGood, so let's do that first before making an already terribly exploitative system even worse.
- catlifeonmars 3y agoThis where I think criminalization actually serves to increase exploitation and increase the incentives for exploitation.
- c048 3y agoI heavily disagree with that. Most legally available drugs are already out of reach for most of the homeless people (even more so in the US). These people are primarily defined by their financial status, if nothing else.
- catlifeonmars 3y agoMaybe we are talking about different things. I mean that criminalizing drugs tends to make their use more risky as there are fewer quality controls and no legal recourse for drug users who get low quality or downright poisonous products. Vulnerable populations, like the homeless, who are already easy to exploit, become victims of this culturally and legally defined demarcation.
- c048 3y agoThe only way that I can see that happening is when the price would drop significantly enough so homeless people would prefer it over black-market dealers. Keep in mind that there are a lot of legal practices, or legally obtainable things, that still have a large black market. Its been historically proven again and again that people will gladly take risks or a loss in quality over affordability.