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Re:Delaware will become the 22nd state to legalize recreatio... by hydrok9 on Sunday April 23, 2023 @08:30PM (#35682260)
Executing people almost never works. You can't kill everyone and the higher-ups will never run out of expendable street-level dealers. The lure of lots of easy money is too strong.
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Re:Delaware will become the 22nd state to legalize recreatio... by JamesBarney on Monday April 24, 2023 @01:02AM (#35683836)
What places have gone hog wild executing drug dealers and not found a reduction in drug use?
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Re:Delaware will become the 22nd state to legalize recreatio... by hydrok9 on Monday April 24, 2023 @11:47AM (#35689131)
It causes a reduction, but it doesn't remove drugs, and you end up killing mostly people who only ended up in drugs because they were desperate, poor, or mentally ill.
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Re:Delaware will become the 22nd state to legalize recreatio... by rayiner on Monday April 24, 2023 @01:16AM (#35683926)
Then execute the higher ups. We used RICO to break the mafia, no reason we couldn’t do it to the drug traffickers.

You’re just saying it’s not possible to have an orderly society and enforce the law, which I don’t believe. If you compare say San Francisco to Singapore, it’s hard not to conclude that permissiveness increases disorder while enforcement decreases it.

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