Posted on 01/19/2020 3:44:01 PM PST by conservative98
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) is calling for the U.S. to legalize currently illicit drugs.
“If we take that step to legalize and regulate, then we're no longer treating people who are struggling with substance addiction and abuse as criminals and instead getting them the help that they need,” the 2020 presidential candidate said at a campaign stop in Merrimack, New Hampshire on Friday.
She was responding to a voter who asked whether her plan to end the war on drugs centered on more harm reduction and treatment or if it involved moving to “legalize and regulate narcotics so that you're no longer seeing tainted drugs on the street...and involvement in the black market.”
The congresswoman replied that her answer was “all of the above.”
“The costs and the consequence to this failed war on drugs is so vast and far reaching, socially and fiscally, that if we take these necessary steps, we'll be able to solve a lot of other problems that we're dealing with in this country,” she said.
Gabbard, who has sponsored several marijuana legalization bills during her time in Congress, had previously said in an interview last year that she supported “decriminalizing an individual’s choice to use whatever substances that are there while still criminalizing those who are traffickers and dealers of these drugs.”
Gabbard’s latest comments, which were first noted and recorded by journalist Michael Tracey, go beyond that by indicating she backs a legally regulated method of producing and distributing drugs.
The stance also puts her a step further than former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, a rival Democratic presidential candidate, who has endorsed simply decriminalizing possession of all drugs.
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Singapore has advantage over China and Iran, it is much smaller.
Good point - and the USA is very large.
“” “” heroin is half again as addictive as alcohol””” “
Bravo Sierra.
Of people who have used alcohol, 15% have at some point been dependent on it; the corresponding figure for heroin is 23%. https://www.nap.edu/read/9586/chapter/4#57
People dependent on alcohol are mostly functional people. Heroin addicts are dead people walking.
As I said: We only see the nonfunctional users of illegal drugs, because the functional ones are able and willing to be discreet (for obvious reasons). History has examples of well-known people who were functional opiate users; today's functional users ain't talking.
But it works in singapore right?
But it works in singapore right?
Um ... that's what I said. Did you have a point?
“today’s functional users ain’t talking.”
Your friends still make the Internet:
Some “entertainment” value above...
Well. Dope certainly improved his mind.../s
That’s what they say—don’t they? ;)
As a non-toker, smoking MY mom’s ashes wouldn’t have entered my mind.
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