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When can we stop the madness and regulate drugs rather than criminalizing them? Didn't we learn anything from prohibition?? In a time when so many people are aw
by chuckcode 12y ago
When can we stop the madness and regulate drugs rather than criminalizing them? Didn't we learn anything from prohibition?? In a time when so many people are aware of the limitations of government why do so many people think that we're going to resolve the drug problems with more government in the form courts and prisons. We're just creating a market opportunity for the cartels by inflating prices and turning their customers into criminals.
- handle_bars 12y agoAre you suggesting that we legalise everything that is currently illegal, so that we would have no need to prohibit anything and turn nobody into criminals? We could very well apply this logic to say, murder. Why not let us legalise murder, set up appropriate channels for people to hire hitmen to kill each other, so that the underground killers would not have any more customers and then they will gradually die out?
- serf 12y ago>We could very well apply this logic to say, murder. Why not let us legalise murder, set up appropriate channels for people to hire hitmen to kill each other, so that the underground killers would not have any more customers and then they will gradually die out? like a government sponsored drone-strike-for-sale hotline? put the hitmen out of business with pure capitalism and good old legal (international) murder.
- handle_bars 12y agoGood ol' pure capitalism my friend.
- rurounijones 12y agoPerson A takes drugs, person A is affected. Person A kills Person B, person B is affected.
- handle_bars 12y agoThis has got to be the most naive reasoning I've seen. We totally live in a deterministic world where 1 action affects only 1 person, and everything else is isolated from one another.
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- Dylan16807 12y agoCongratulations, you figured out that a simplification of an argument is a simplification. If you would like answers about the details you can search google or ask. If you want to sound smart for figuring out that there are details, it's not going to happen.
- zavi 12y agoMurder directly harms other people, while drugs directly affect only the person taking them. The line is if it directly harms others it should be illegal; otherwise not.
- chuckcode 12y agoI'm sorry if the original comment came off as inflammatory. What I'm trying to say is that when there are enough people using illegal drugs it is very difficult to use prisons and courts to get them to stop. Much like you can dam up a river but then the water flows around into other undesirable places. As with prohibition it seems a much more practical strategy to regulate the industry, if effect rerouting the river to where it does the least harm. Use regulation to make drugs safer and to minimize the harm to our communities when the the $100 billion dollars spent every year ends up in criminal hands.