cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/180669
I’m kind of for legalizing all drugs, slowly, while also putting in place societal infrastructure for discouraging the abuse of drugs and to help people who become addicts.
I can elaborate on further reasons for legalization of drugs if requested; it is not however a top priority to me as a policy issue so I don’t focus on it as much for that reason.
What do you think about drug legalization or criminalization?
Legalizing just lowers the barrier to create new addicts. Drugs and poverty usually correlate and that wont change by making it legal. It just makes the black market drop in price. Look at weed, the black market isnt gone its just cheaper. I dont want to see ten dollar grams of heroine as it will nullify any efforts to get them clean. In my country they dish out free heroine to addicts. They can shoot it up in a clean place. Gets them off the street and in the eyes of the government so they can always take a step to sobriety. That incentive is gone the moment heroine is ten bucks.