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Sorry, I meant to say decriminalization. I live near Oregon and decriminalization was a disaster. This video captures it well: https://youtu.be/2GU3TGSWPsw?si=f
by tyleo 2y ago
Sorry, I meant to say decriminalization. I live near Oregon and decriminalization was a disaster. This video captures it well: https://youtu.be/2GU3TGSWPsw?si=fie4SFowzdnKNFRK https://youtu.be/2GU3TGSWPsw?si=fie4SFowzdnKNFRK
I dove into this topic to understand what went wrong to the best of my ability. From what I gather, countries with successful decriminalization also have government assistance for the addicted. That’s much different than the US’s “shoot up anywhere, any time.”
That being said, the point I was responding to is that, of the two extremes, total prohibition seems better than total decriminalization.
- stouset 2y agoOut of curiosity, was the money saved from decriminalization reallocated into addiction treatment?
- vintermann 2y agoBold to assume there was any money saved. But either way, people underestimate how expensive addiction treatment is, and overestimate how effective it is. Prohibition of alcohol, or rather the teetotaller movement, came because they realized society had a problem it couldn't individualize and pay itself out of. We still haven't, but for a good 80 years we've had enough money to hide the problem.