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Yeah, I'm saddened that everyone is jumping on the "whelp, back to the war on drugs" band wagon... This is a thing we can do and make work, plenty of other pla

Yeah, I'm saddened that everyone is jumping on the "whelp, back to the war on drugs" band wagon... This is a thing we can do and make work, plenty of other places have had success with it, we just keep doing things in the most Kafka-esque way possible.

dmitrygr 3y ago
> plenty of other places have had success with it Which places, and what do you call success? The only place in the world that seems to have drugs handled properly is Singapore.
- chownie 3y ago
  With the always caveat that no other nation can replicate what Singapore does without widespread use of slavery or culling/exiling the poor.
  - jorvi 3y ago
    Not only that, people (well, mammals) want to get high. Alchohol is so much more destructive than weed or MDMA, on both a personal or societal scale. If you’d ban alcohol, people will just sniff glue or start brewing their own bathtub hooch. Legalization + proper harm reduction + strict enforcement on public (ab)use is ultimately the way. You get a triple win of tax income, freed up police resources and less pressure on the healthcare system.