Re:The war on drugs is a broken business model
by Gormo on Saturday October 12, 2013 @10:15PM
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> The war on drugs is certainly bad. But I still believe there are drugs that should be prohibited.
Let's be clear here: a legal prohibition is nothing more than an ultimatum. It's a threat of punishment - "if you use heroin, and we catch you, we will lock you in a cage".
If you're opposed to people using heroin because it's harmful, can you explain how making people serve prison sentences and have life-long criminal records in addition to being heroin addicts somehow reduces the amount of harm that they suffer? Because, from where I'm sitting, it seems that the solution you offer to the harm caused by heroin and meth is to do even more harm to people, on top of the harm caused by the drugs.
Let's be clear here: a legal prohibition is nothing more than an ultimatum. It's a threat of punishment - "if you use heroin, and we catch you, we will lock you in a cage".
If you're opposed to people using heroin because it's harmful, can you explain how making people serve prison sentences and have life-long criminal records in addition to being heroin addicts somehow reduces the amount of harm that they suffer? Because, from where I'm sitting, it seems that the solution you offer to the harm caused by heroin and meth is to do even more harm to people, on top of the harm caused by the drugs.