In a speech delivered last week at an international harm reduction conference, United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk called drug decriminalization “a crucial step toward a more humane and effective drug policy,” saying that prohibition and criminalization “are failing some of the most vulnerable groups in our societies.” “We need a […]
Been saying this my whole life. They never learned the lesson of alcohol prohibition in America. It doesn’t work. It just creates more gang violence, dangerous cut drugs, destroyed lives from prison, and more corruption. It creates far more pain than it pretends to prevent.
Legalizing means FDA regulations to make drug use safer and more controlled, taxes off the spending which can be used to fund rehabs for people who decide to quit, gangs lose power and money, prison populations go down ruining fewer lives and costing society less, and less crime to support habits. There is no evidence drug use is deterred by prohibition. We have spent trillions on the war on drugs and drug use and deaths have not gone down. States marijuana was legalized have seen crime drop and people are taking safer drugs - no deaths from cut drugs and no exposure to criminals to get their fix. I fail to see the upside of drug prohibition. Society seemed to function when drugs were legal a century ago.
Meh, I think we should let darwinism take its course, I’ve seen too many family members and close friends die from overdoses. You can’t help someone who refuses nor wants to help themselves. I’ve literally seen it all, literally, the worse of the worse. My uncle died from heroin, I was 14, my cousin his daughter and I found him stiff and blue in the lips. My other uncle died after years of suffering from hepatitis, even after getting it cured, he began using meth again, injecting it, he disappeared during covid and I thought he was dead, but the reality was much worse. He was found wandering the streets and brought to an ER in a non-communicable state, then went into an end of life facility, where he remained for like 3 more years, he finally was able to pass peacefully after I found and corrected his DNR paperwork that the facility changed. He was a literal vegetable for so long and he would never have wanted that, he passed just a year ago at age 60. Then there’s my mother who can find pills even if you hide them up your ass, it’s unreal the level an addict will go to get that high. I could go into cousins, but I’d literally be writing you a whole book.
So legalizing, nah, decriminalizing, sure. But if you get nailed for manufacturing, fuck you, if there’s deaths linked to you then perhaps it’s time for you to meet your maker.
I’m aware of all the studies and legalization in Spain, but we are not Spain, and unfortunately the methods and outcomes don’t really translate into success here.
Also, I too partied hard, but I had a heroic dose of LSD and then has a good talking to myself. EGO death, the clarity allowed me to say “no more”, and that was the last time I did anything, that was December 31st 1999.
People who were in my Circle:
The guy who went to prison for Making the meth you saw on Breaking Bad, he literally lived with us, he was my uncles friend.
The guy behind all the good LSD in the 1990’s, via a friend at Kent State University.
That’s what happens when you don’t follow through and fail to fund the second half of it.
Decriminalization will work with actual funded treatment centers.
This also doesn’t prevent police from stopping drug users.
Police just stopped stopping public drug users because they can no longer get direct funding from arresting them.
I have no idea what the solution to address that is besides also fixing policing.
Been saying this my whole life. They never learned the lesson of alcohol prohibition in America. It doesn’t work. It just creates more gang violence, dangerous cut drugs, destroyed lives from prison, and more corruption. It creates far more pain than it pretends to prevent.
Worked so well for Portland, Oregon.
Legalizing means FDA regulations to make drug use safer and more controlled, taxes off the spending which can be used to fund rehabs for people who decide to quit, gangs lose power and money, prison populations go down ruining fewer lives and costing society less, and less crime to support habits. There is no evidence drug use is deterred by prohibition. We have spent trillions on the war on drugs and drug use and deaths have not gone down. States marijuana was legalized have seen crime drop and people are taking safer drugs - no deaths from cut drugs and no exposure to criminals to get their fix. I fail to see the upside of drug prohibition. Society seemed to function when drugs were legal a century ago.
Meh, I think we should let darwinism take its course, I’ve seen too many family members and close friends die from overdoses. You can’t help someone who refuses nor wants to help themselves. I’ve literally seen it all, literally, the worse of the worse. My uncle died from heroin, I was 14, my cousin his daughter and I found him stiff and blue in the lips. My other uncle died after years of suffering from hepatitis, even after getting it cured, he began using meth again, injecting it, he disappeared during covid and I thought he was dead, but the reality was much worse. He was found wandering the streets and brought to an ER in a non-communicable state, then went into an end of life facility, where he remained for like 3 more years, he finally was able to pass peacefully after I found and corrected his DNR paperwork that the facility changed. He was a literal vegetable for so long and he would never have wanted that, he passed just a year ago at age 60. Then there’s my mother who can find pills even if you hide them up your ass, it’s unreal the level an addict will go to get that high. I could go into cousins, but I’d literally be writing you a whole book.
So legalizing, nah, decriminalizing, sure. But if you get nailed for manufacturing, fuck you, if there’s deaths linked to you then perhaps it’s time for you to meet your maker.
I’m aware of all the studies and legalization in Spain, but we are not Spain, and unfortunately the methods and outcomes don’t really translate into success here.
Also, I too partied hard, but I had a heroic dose of LSD and then has a good talking to myself. EGO death, the clarity allowed me to say “no more”, and that was the last time I did anything, that was December 31st 1999.
People who were in my Circle:
That’s what happens when you don’t follow through and fail to fund the second half of it.
Decriminalization will work with actual funded treatment centers.
This also doesn’t prevent police from stopping drug users. Police just stopped stopping public drug users because they can no longer get direct funding from arresting them.
I have no idea what the solution to address that is besides also fixing policing.