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?
“Since both accomplish the same thing,”
And that’s my point. Putting more impaired drivers on the road doesn’t make it safer or kill less people. If you can come up with a way to stop the blood I will back you 104%. But I need to hear it and someone has got to sell it to a group of morons that are already knowingly causing the death of people for their recreation.
And I guess you didn’t read about Oregon. And these fools in other states will see this and they will stretch it just as they did with the legalization in Oregon. And thanks to these recreation people, we now have hard drugs on the streets, legal. And it will not stop the sales coming from the cartels as they will be losing their gold mine and they will fight back. Dominos.
More of it is coming. Kevin Sabet, the founder of Smart Approaches to Marijuana and a three-time White House Office of National Drug Control Policy adviser said, “The threat of criminal prosecution can be a powerful incentive for people to seek treatment, he said. Likewise, legalization can empower people to abuse drugs without fearing legal jeopardy.
“The threat of criminal prosecution can be a powerful incentive for people to seek treatment, he said. Likewise, legalization can empower people to abuse drugs without fearing legal jeopardy.”
“For a lot of people, they stop drinking once they got a DUI, and they realized what they were doing was wrong,” Sabet said. “I think a lot of people have gotten help through drug courts. For a lot of people, consequences are important. And I think we can find a way to marry the criminal justice and public health systems.”
And I hope when that happens a lot of people won’t be dead.....for someone’s choice of a recreation.
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