Re:Cheap and They Don't Snitch: Drones Are the New Drug Mules
by nojster on Friday January 05, 2024 @04:25PM
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Agreeing on this one. State should sell any kind of addictive substance, which would immediately yield benefits:
1. (Large parts of) Funding of organized crime would dry up and the state would get extra income via tax
2. Addicts know they can get their fix and hence can take up regular work
3. Substances would be cleaner and thus safer for consumption (easing the burden of the health care system)
Not saying that there are no downsides to this, but the downsides have to be weighed against the upsides and in my book the upsides outweigh the downsides.
Re:Cheap and They Don't Snitch: Drones Are the New Drug Mules
by bb88 on Friday January 05, 2024 @06:56PM
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> Going after dealers just doesn't fucking work.
I may get downvoted for this, but...
I for one believe that drug dealers are still the scum of society using people's own biology for profit. This isn't any different than the Sackler's. Why do you want to normalize drug dealing?
First order crimes. For example drinking, then getting in a crash would be a first order crime of alcohol use.
A second order crime could be something like stealing money to buy your next beer, or running an illegal bootlegging operation.
In deciding how to police the issue, the last thing you want to consider is punishment, and the first you want to consider is harm reduction.
Going after dealers just doesn't fucking work. We've been spending billions on it, and in doing so we have a non-stop line of dealers and manufactures making more deadly and addictive concoctions every day. The more you bust the dealers, the more the price goes up, the more stealing occurs by the users, the and more corruption of law enforcement by the dealers paying people off because of the huge sums of money involved happen. As they say "There was a war on drugs, drugs won".