So you think there are untold millions who are deterred by the chance of arrest and conviction, but absent that chance would not be deterred by the inherent dangers of the drug? Why should anyone believe that dubious claim? Are YOU such a person?
You don’t believe that punitive measures are reasonably effective in preventing drug use?
BS, epic BS.
The punitive measures I would have faced had I been found to be using drugs kept me in line and for the threat imposed, I’m grateful that I haven’t ended up like some dope addled libertopian...
“So you think there are untold millions who are deterred by the chance of arrest and conviction, but absent that chance would not be deterred by the inherent dangers of the drug? Why should anyone believe that dubious claim? Are YOU such a person?”
You have a point as I still don’t smoke pot even though it has been essentially decriminalized in my state. Is there any data in Colorado as to whether pot use has increased or decreased in the last few years? Heroin has no medical use what so ever, I don’t ever see that drug being de-criminalized. I do know some heroin addicts personally including one friend who died from the drug. They didn’t start out taking heroin but got there by first abusing alcohol then pot and onto harder drugs and eventually to the cheap heroin. Their lives were just a slow suicide, one finally snapped out of it the other couldn’t.