“With Decriminalization we can use existing laws and impose rational penalties and fines. Kinda like alcohol.”
no, not kinda like alcohol. pretty much nothing like alcohol. alcohol is legal for all adults over the age of 21. decriminilization means that it’s still illegal and still has to be smuggled into the country which does nothing to address the problems of violence in our cities, at our border, and around the world.
by making the purchase of these substances legal on the open market, we take away the monopoly that the cartels and drug gangs have.
Therein lies the rub - the interests currently benefiting from the cash flows associated with the "illegal"; i.e. untaxed, drugs trade will not allow any changes in the law.
The cartels own the politicians. Can any rational person acquainted with history doubt this?
Yet we have to endure a public debate which does not touch upon this brutal fact at all.
We deserve the government we have, however false, shameless and pandering it may be.