U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation

Re:U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native Americ... by Cthulhu_ on Friday July 10, 2020 @03:52AM (#23789185)

> The only way to stop our neverending war on drugs is a Constitutional amendment that guarantees every American the right to consume anything they want for any reason.

I disagree; whilst decriminalization is the way forward for the harmless / "soft" drugs, the hard drugs (e.g. heroin) are dangerous and destroy people and should not be freely accessible to anyone, anywhere.

What some countries do instead is provide heroin (or methadone) to people but only in specific locations, where they're provided with a safe and clean environment and equipment to do their thing, and where they can get help with their addiction if they want.

What I'm saying is that a lot of drugs are genuinely dangerous and should not become generally available.

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Re:U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native Americ... by dragonwriter on Friday July 10, 2020 @05:22AM (#23789629)

> I disagree; whilst decriminalization is the way forward for the harmless / "soft" drugs,

What harmless drugs? No drugs, not even the ones that are currently legal (well, especially not some of them, really) are harmless. Prohibition isn't a bad idea because the prohibited substances are harmless, but because prohibition isn't an efficient mechanism of mitigating the harms (in fact, it aggravates them.)

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