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Yeah, legalizing heroin is not going to fix the problem, medicalizing it might cost a lot, and you won't be able to compete with drugs dealers. Users might buy

by jokoon 12y ago

Yeah, legalizing heroin is not going to fix the problem, medicalizing it might cost a lot, and you won't be able to compete with drugs dealers. Users might buy from dealers anyway. If you want to remove the dealer's profits, you have to compete with drug dealers, but it has to be healthy, you have to treat users and remove the incentive to use drugs, and it's a very tricky thing to do. I really don't know how to do this, but it boils down to the same problem of unemployment and crime. How do you integrate people into a healthy social model ? Poverty and economic opportunity is still at the root of the problem.

soylentcola 12y ago
At the very least, I feel like not throwing someone in jail for being a drug addict or smalltime dealer would be a good start. Too many people resort to drugs to escape despair (if only temporarily) or poverty (through working the only business that seems to be "hiring" in your town). Addressing the root causes of this is indeed difficult, but you exacerbate the problem when those same people who need solutions are saddled with criminal records for life.