Re:I am a heroin user. I do not have a drug problem
by akiselev on Thursday February 18, 2021 @11:29AM
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We can, however, easily take the opposite conclusion: drug criminalization has been an unmitigated disaster in almost every country it’s been tried short of a few incredibly homogenous countries like Japan and countries for which no real data is available like North Korea.
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Re:I am a heroin user. I do not have a drug problem
by rwmj on Thursday February 18, 2021 @11:43AM
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It's a disaster in Japan and North Korea too, albeit in different ways. In North Korea the state manufactures some very nasty narcotics and distributes them as a way to gain foreign currency with the "nice" side effect of destabilising those places they export to. Japan has a plainly crazy attitute to cannabis, with people losing their careers and being socially ostracised over the most passing association with the drug.