I would like to legalize all currently illegal drugs, and then I’d like to provide highly concentrated drugs to dopers for free.
Within about six months, the death rate due to OD’s will taper off, natural selection will have runs it’s course and we’ll be on our way.
The problem today is that we’re all too eager to hamper the process of evolution in the human species. If we make stupidity painful or fatal again, we’ll be rid of the problem in a enduring fashion.
P.J. O’Rourke remarked years ago that instant legalization would result in darwin taking over. The “built-in payback” as he put it.
lol.
Is that like increasing food stamps so they can eat themselves to death too?
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The headline asserts that the war on drugs is a failure. And yet we have yet to define exactly what constitutes a “failure”. Impassioned arguments one way or another skirt the issue of costs versus benefits. Objectively, and in terms of the drug problem today pitted against the cost incured both monetarily and the erosion of personal liberties (which admittedly has no definable dollar value), it is a failure. What should be done to remedy the problem is another issue entirely.