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"disincentivising", also known as "war on drugs" is making criminals more rich and police more corrupt. "dry laws" have also mostly resulted in proliferation o
by gryzzly 3y ago
"disincentivising", also known as "war on drugs" is making criminals more rich and police more corrupt.
"dry laws" have also mostly resulted in proliferation of illegal alcohol sales and criminal groups dealing with that.
perhaps harm reduction should be dealt with in a different way than prohibition and use of force.
- cies 3y ago> is making criminals more rich and police more corrupt. And youngsters who smoke weed in the streets learn to hate cops. Which may or may not be a bad thing.
- lispm 3y agoA society determines which harmful substances (and its effects on the individual and the society) it tolerates and how. Alcohol is in Germany tolerated (more than in the US) and it is also a huge legal business. I'm for tolerating both alcohol and cannabis, but without mass marketing (ads, ...). One struggle we face is the large inflow of other drugs, the resulting damage (for example from crack) currently from south America, the import of crime from there and the use of the drug business of legal cannabis business to expand their other drug business.