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12 ounces of shrooms or 40 hits of LSD are “small amounts?”
All drugs should be decriminalized, legalized, and taxed. Substance abuse is a medical issue, not a legal one. Sending people to jail for drug abuse/possession, as well as sending people to jail for selling things that are in huge demand and widely available, is pretty stupid. It's clogging our courts and prisons and costing us money where it should be generating tax revenue.
Are you kidding me?This is a really bad idea. I get why people can argue for marijuana decriminalization. I don't agree with it and I certainly don't agree with Illinois' efforts to steer it to politically connected individuals, but I understand the other side.But decriminalizing cocaine, heroin, PCP, meth, etc., in small doses? The impact of this stuff on society is horrible. And endorsing it by making it legal is downright disgusting. What are we going to do when law enforcement comes across it among folks under 18 years of age. "Well, my parents are doing it," some kid might say, "so why can't I?" Next thing you know, they'll be starting a "Free el Chapo" movement in Eugene!Brother Billy is right in the sense we need to support rehab.
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The opiod crisis is a good counterpoint for the legalization and taxing of all drugs. For me the line of what should be legalized and taxed depends on the science of what is addictive, because the logic of addiction doesn't follow a rational economic curve. If you're addicted to heroin, there is no line at which supply/demand and imposition of tax is enough to price you out. Or once the economic line reaches that high, you're going to get into deadly knock offs like fentanyl or crocodil or whatever. There is always a worse, less regulated option for the addicted, and facilitating that is a snowball that you won't get control of again. That doesn't mean that our criminalization of those drugs needs to be unduly punitive though. We should absolutely be reforming the way our criminal justice system handles addicted drug offenders, but that doesn't mean you throw the baby out with the bathwater and legalize and regulate it all.
If they are sincere and effective with the treatment/rehab efforts, I’m cautiously in favor. And that’s after giving it a lot of contemplative thoughtHere is my thing with heroin or meth if that’s in the consideration. Unlike alcohol or pot or even coke, that’s not a gateway where people are like “I’d like to try it but it’s illegal and that’s what is stopping me.” Access to that is rampant and quite easy/accessible, regardless of legality. So contrary to popular belief, this won’t lead to more kids falling into heroin or whatnot, but it does have a much greater chance of doing something about how we treat and approach drug addiction