Should the US decriminalize drugs?
Question by Owen: Should the US decriminalize drugs?
A city in the Netherlands did an experiment. If a person in that city was an addict, they could go to a facility and have the drug they are addicted to administered by a trained physician, in turn they had to agree to rehabilitation therapy. Violent crime dropped to nearly zero, because 1) addicts did not have to rob to get their fix, and 2) cops could actually spend their time catching violent people instead of letting the violent suspect go in lieu of a non-violent drug user (who would you rather have in your back seat? Jeffery Dahmer or Willie Nelson? Those who shouldn’t even be cops would say Willie Neson, because he doesn’t yell, scream, kick, or kill. Dahmer would be a handful.)
These safe-injection sites have popped up in many other cities in Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands, even one in Canada. It turns out that in a government facility, it only costs a little less than $ 0.02 to make enough meth amphetamine to keep a human just below overdose for a full 24 hour period.
A city in Canada is also trying this experiment, the city of Toronto. They have instituted safe-injection sites that are having the same effect.
I would posit that the drug war is not about helping people, it’s about making money for the police departments. They can unconstitutionally seize property, and sell it in many cases. They have become just like a para-military force. They say it’s to fight well armed gangs and cartels. Those gangs and cartels would have no power or money if our Government took their customers away from them by giving away drugs for free? This could not hurt a society that 64% of the population drinks 4.5 drinks per week. 90% of the population is on a prescription (remember Opium use to be prescribed, so you can’t say ‘just because it’s a pharmaceutical means it’s not a recreational drug.’
Right now Sheriff Andy Taylor might be getting replaced with a corrupt Sheriff Rambo. Sheriff Rambo would not be necessary if the government would start thinking in a rational way that’s not always punitive.
Best answer:
Answer by D Eastwood
sorry I didn’t read that big ass page but everything should be banned except weed
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