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Originally Posted by blankall
That's not really the point.
The suggested model is the one created by Portugal, and it's been shown to work. To respond to your concerns:
1) You don't decriminilize traffickers and dealers. In fact, you come down on them harder. You divert law enforcement resources directed at users and put it all on the distributers. Arreset the people making money and not the one's who are addicted to drugs.
2) The point is to stop the problem before people go to jail. Many people end up in jail because of drugs. Because using drugs and possessing personal amounts of drugs is illegal, people are unable to seek treatment and, generally, distrustful of the system.
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Giving people a way to legally buy drugs will be the hardest way to come down on the dealers. Take away their source of income, and they go away.