thanks for the detailed answers. Unfortunately, there will always be a police state with powerful, heavily addictive drugs. Criminals will cluster in areas where we don’t fully legalize, and even if we do fully legalize, the drugs will create other problems that require police attention.
So we may as well have a simple bright-line law against hard drugs.
How is this claim relevant? Will a simple bright-line law against hard drugs take powerful, heavily addictive drugs away from the police state?
even if we do fully legalize, the drugs will create other problems that require police attention.
Nobody is less of a problem to the police than the quietly nodding heroin user or the Pink Floyd-grooving stoner. What requires police attention is nanny-state laws against drugs.
So we may as well have a simple bright-line law against hard drugs.
What about the hard drug alcohol?
"Of all psychoactive substances, alcohol is the only one whose consumption has been shown to commonly increase aggression. [...] Marijuana and opiates temporarily inhibit violent behavior"
- "Psychoactive Substances and Violence", Department of Justice National Criminal Justice Reference Service