Re:Purdue Pharma files for bankruptcy with $10B plan to sett...
by moate on Monday September 16, 2019 @09:45AM
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>>You can't lump them all together!
Actually some of us do. Just open the floodgates when it comes to what you're able to have access to.
Spending money enforcing prohibition feels less helpful than spending that same money on treatment of underlying issues or addressing other social problems that lead to drug use in the first place. Rather than criminalize the use behavior, which doesn't do anything to save lives in any real way, try to fix the actual problem rather than just sweep it under the rug of the criminal justice system.
Actually some of us do. Just open the floodgates when it comes to what you're able to have access to.
Spending money enforcing prohibition feels less helpful than spending that same money on treatment of underlying issues or addressing other social problems that lead to drug use in the first place. Rather than criminalize the use behavior, which doesn't do anything to save lives in any real way, try to fix the actual problem rather than just sweep it under the rug of the criminal justice system.