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Legalize drugs, open border and trade with Mexico, and everyone prospers.
originally posted by: MOMof3
a reply to: TheRedneck
People are already oding. I thought it was called a national emergency.
originally posted by: TheRedneck
a reply to: MOMof3
That wasn't my question. You said if we legalized drugs, opened the border, and had trade with Mexico, everyone would prosper. We did two of those and I'm not prospering. I am part of everyone. WHY AM I NOT PROSPERING? How will making hard drugs legal help me to prosper?
TheRedneck
originally posted by: TheRedneck
How will making it easier for kids to OD on hard drugs make me prosper? Really, I want an answer to that.
originally posted by: Aazadan
originally posted by: TheRedneck
How will making it easier for kids to OD on hard drugs make me prosper? Really, I want an answer to that.
It gets them out of the legal system, and stops burdening them with being felons for one. Use the money spent prosecuting on treatment, and some will then be able to get clean and go on to productive lives.
If you send a low level drug user to prison, he gets an education in being a more effective criminal, comes out, and escalates crimes to score more drugs. That doesn't benefit anyone.
It gets them out of the legal system, and stops burdening them with being felons for one.
If you send a low level drug user to prison...
originally posted by: pavil
Redneck's point still stand for opiates, the increase in sheer numbers would be horrible for our society. The war on drugs has not worked, but legalizing ALL drugs during an already nationwide epidemic of opiate deaths is not the answer either.
originally posted by: Aazadan
a reply to: TheRedneck
I put heroin and marijuana users on the same tier. It's about what they're doing for their fix, low level users are just paying a dealer a few bucks, in the case of opoid users most are getting it through a pharmacy.