Excellent thread, gents. I watched the doc, and read the whole thing in one shot.
Some knowledgeable people in this thread. I think Street Pharmacist et al have pushed me farther off my libertarian "legalize it" approach.
For those folks that advocate a "mixed legal" system, where distribution is criminal, and possession is decriminalized, the question I am curious about is how to effectively distribute our resources.
How would you chop up $100 between health resources, education, enforcement, prison resources, etc.
In theory there should be an ideal mixture which minimizes drug usage, death, or whatever outcome.
It seems to me that enforcement and prison is disproportionately expensive relative to other remedies like education and treatment, although that's more just a guess. Although I would be surprised if our current allocation made a lot of sense.
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