Do you think "hard" drugs should be legal?

[Regular Developer]

I mean, I don't want it to be a replacement to us doing a better job of handling mental illnesses.

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

Are you pouring jelly on MJ?

 

[Fill Collins]

Alcohol's a hard drug but I do think all drugs should be decriminalized and safe use measures like needle exchanges, narcan distribution and test kits be given away

Drug use is a symptom of society, not a cause

I think adults should be able to whatever they want in their own private properties alone or with other consenting adults

 

[Son Goku]

Nah, but if folks wanna sniff/snort/smoke their say to an early grave there will be more resources for the rest of us.

 

[OliviaTwist]

Alcohol being legal takes the strength away from the argument of other hard drugs being illegal in my opinion.

 

[ItsPeople]

Even the ones that will have you neglecting your kids and stealing from your mammy?

 

[Hoodoo Child]

Decriminalized, but highly regulated.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

No... because junkies won't just keep it to themselves. They'll rob people to get their fix. They'll get behind a wheel. They'll lose their mind and forget about their kids being home alone. Etc...

I hate junkies.

 

[Dr. Acula]

No. Come to the west coast and see all the people who look like they are half dead walking around. Also a lot of crime like Bipping in San Fran is driven by drug addictions.

MJ and Alcohol (I think this is worse than MJ) and all the usual normalized things are ok. Hard drugs are destroyers of societies.

 

[WIA20XX]

How has it worked out in other countries who have made hard drugs legal?

Why Portland failed where Portugal succeeded in decriminalizing drugs

Oregon lawmakers gave it three years. Portugal’s program took longer to show results.

www.politico.eu

By contrast, Portugal had an expansive and trusted public health network that was reinforced by adding addiction treatment clinics during the 1990s.

Portugal's decriminalization went into effect in the summer of 2001. Goulão believes it was effective in moving drug users into treatment from the start, while reducing overdoses, but he said it took three to four years to prove it was.

"For you to be able to claim something works, scientifically, you have to let it exist, you have to collect data, have it contrasted ... These things take time."

Like everything else, the society and the government have to be behind it, and put money and people on it.

The US only likes to do things halfway

 

[get these nets]

When I say "hard" drugs I mean things like heroin, crack/cocaine, ecstacy, meth, etc.

There's an argument that all drugs should be legal - adults should be able to do what they want with their bodies, and if these drugs are legal than people can use safely (relatively speaking...) and there will be fewer overdoses and less violence. Not to mention people wouldn't be going to jail for nonviolent drug offenses. On the other hand, some people are against legalizing hard drugs and think that would just encourage more people to use them.

What's the TLR take?

Was done in real life in Oregon, they are in the process of rolling some of it back

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/oregon-decriminalized-hard-drugs-it-isnt-working.1005414/

 

[DrexlersFade]

Just move to Vancouver

Just shut the fukk up.

 

[OperationNumbNutts]

Yes. I would be nervous if it would be legalized but I can't deny the current game isn't working. I'll be no different than cannabis in lot of states. The money will just shift to different industries.

 

[cheek100]

Crack was everywhere in the 80s see how that turned out

 

[boogers]

Was done in real life in Oregon, they are in the process of rolling some of it back

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/oregon-decriminalized-hard-drugs-it-isnt-working.1005414/

cacs ruin everything