If we decriminalize hard drugs, I bet we'll end up paying more for food stamps, Social Security disability, and other welfare programs to support more addicts. So I oppose decriminalizing.
War on drugs. We surrender!
America wants cheap legal and all drugs and virtually no police. We also want a min wage that’ll cost $50t over 10 years for a lousy $500 a month.
But by FAR most Americans want and demand legal drugs.
That would be the end.
Translation: Is America ready for Buttplug?
If we are going for lawlessness, then remove all laws. But that’s not what they are doing. They are promoting evil and crushing good.
Fentanyl?
We see the results from the “other” libtards in San Fran and LA. Neither of them are worth listening to
I don’t mind idiots destroying their own lives with drugs, but too often they destroy the lives of their children, too.
I have a cousin whose son used heroin. He looked like zombie but luckily he stopped using (though I suspect he could easily begin using any moment now that he believes he has it under control).
On the other hand, there would be a sell-culling of the weak who can't resist temptation. Hopefully people would learn to make the right choice and avoid drugs after seeing what unrestricted use can do.
What? Will I still get arrested for acid?
Seriously, this is criminal. Both of those drugs are devastating.
Self Cleaning Oven.
I’m good with it.
I see nothing in my copy of the constitution wherein the federal government is given any authority over what I put in my body, only by implication the authority to punish me if I harm others as a result.
Give out free 2 week supply of heroine at the welfare office. Every 2nd Wednesday, the dependent class mysteriously shrinks.
I’d say keep it criminal but change sentencing for users (not dealers) with a strong treatment-instead-of-jail option. Addiction is unique in that it’s both a disease and a crime (at least in its effects on society). I think the law should recognize that. Give addicts a chance at treatment. If they don’t make it, then leave them to their fate, and put them in jail for the non-drug crimes (trespass, vandalism, petty theft, etc.) that addicts inevitably commit. We should reinstitute the vagrancy laws. If you’re living on the street with no visible means of support then you need to either shape up, go to treatment, or go to jail. We need to thread the needle on this - not saying there’s an easy solution.
China is just itching for revenge for the Opium Dens, they’ve never forgotten.
I like the concept of freedom for adults and if people overdose or lose their jobs it should be THEIR problem. The society we have keeps bailing out people for their own behavior. If we let them suffer the consequences, then the freedom thing might work.
Libertarians have some good ideas, but they are often too idealistic. Ideas have to be practical and workable.
It’s a somewhat trivial matter whether or not they legalize heroin and meth. The idiots who use too much will kill themselves, and in the big picture, life really won’t change much at the macro level.
It will be a far, FAR different matter if they legalize LSD. THAT would have VERY far reaching implications at the societal and global levels.
I’ve seen many who abused drugs while receiving Social Security disability income.
When Wallace pushed Buttigieg to clarify what decriminalization might entail, he couldn’t provide any specifics,......
He never does on anything he speaks about...he’s got no answers, just flowery talk and more flowery talk so he can be seen as the neighborly mr Rodgers.....
Buttigiege is a fake.
The new drug tolerance regime is costing us immeasurably and will cost increasingly more in many ways. It’s costly enormously in tax revenues through many government programs, in suffering from crimes committed, in our losses of freedoms (see drug legalization states passing gun control laws), further destruction of the family, further damage to children from misinformation in schools, further damage against national security,...
And look at the political party that Bootyjuice is appealing to for votes and getting those votes. Look what the most popular illegal drug does to political thought in the human mind.