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Originally Posted by Eb0la11
You’re welcome. More people need to speak up to. There’s things that are good for society and things that are bad. We’ve seen enough things get changed in the past decade than needed. It’s interesting many of today’s society is wanting to change the way the world worked for literally thousands of years. Some things are for the better, don’t hear what I’m not saying, but there’s a lot that doesn’t need to change too and keeping hard drugs extremely illegal is one of the things that doesn’t need to change.
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Never said thank you lol. I just find the conservative parrot talk on this subject amusing at this point. The war on drugs has been a spectacular failure at best. The black market has never been stronger, criminals continue to make unfathomable amounts of money and the danger to the user has never been higher.
Putting addicts in jail serves what purpose exactly? Letting them die because the product is totally unregulated is helping how? You do realize that the problem will exist regardless of how much you punish users, right? In fact, it will get worse because addicts with criminal records will have their lives ruined permanently... where do you think they will turn then?
Try approaching this with a modicum of empathy. Maybe realize some problems can't be solved with a hammer. This is a complicated, emotionally charged issue that is clouded by right wing rhetoric and an unrelenting resistance to see the forest for the trees.
Whatever. It's an annoying debate. Probably just have to wait a decade or two for the corrupt dinosaurs to die off, then maybe we'll see the issue taken seriously by those who see addicts as people that need support. Much progress has been made but many still view addicts as sub human, scum of society.
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