“...but blanket bans are a proven failure...”
And that’s what is causing the question to be surfaced, that they had all these arrests. If they had stayed within the law, they wouldn’t have been arrested. So the problem is not that they are being blanketed, they are individually being arrested for choosing to break the law based upon their personal choice. And if the laws are wrong, then get them changed. But while they are in effect and are there to protect people from a personal choice for recreation, then they should be arrested.
And these people won’t stop there. Look at Oregon which which legalized marijuana for recreational use in 2014, and now went a step further and voted to decriminalize illicit drugs. Measure 110 makes the possession of small quantities of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamines and other drugs a civil violation subject to a $100 fine, but no jail time.
Want that on the street? It’s an open invitation to solicit kids. And the line between the pusher and the user who sells some at a higher price and/or cuts it to afford more for themselves disappears. Where does it stop if no one is stopping it but adding to it? Like I said, stupid people just ignoring the problem. And now it is legally being expanded.
The punishment needs to be harsher and more of it. But there are too many people out there that consider arresting these people for violating the law that it is an issue. And too many try to use the old alcohol comparison to weed when both accomplish the same thing. Well, they got weed. Now in Oregon they got heroin, cocaine and LSD. This thinking is getting to be a write off substituting for intelligence.
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So the problem is not that they are being blanketed, they are individually being arrested
"Blanket ban" refers to the law not the enforcement: completely banning rather than restricting or regulating the substance in question.
And if the laws are wrong, then get them changed.
It is wrong and it should change.
And these people won’t stop there. Look at Oregon which which legalized marijuana for recreational use in 2014, and now went a step further and voted to decriminalize illicit drugs. Measure 110 makes the possession of small quantities of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamines and other drugs a civil violation subject to a $100 fine, but no jail time.
"These people" are the voters or their elected representatives; drug law reform will stop wherever the voters decide.
And too many try to use the old alcohol comparison to weed when both accomplish the same thing.
Since both accomplish the same thing, shouldn't both have the same legal status - both legal or both illegal?