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Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale
Step 0 - Mandatory 20-year minimum sentence for dealing schedule 1 drugs. 40-years for distribution. Hard ass prison labor with the rapists and peodphiles.
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Well...thats 'War on Drugs' policy that has been conclusively proven to be, at best, 100% completely ineffective and considerably counter-productive.
One of the heaviest-handed Law Enforcement nations on the face of the Earth tried it for decades and not only lost but seems to have more than exacerbated the problem.
One major reason is because the skill-set required to sell drugs.
Its actually not that hard, almost any idiot can do it and the world is chock full o' idiots. The drugs almost sell themselves.
You incarcerate one idiot for selling drugs and 3 more pop up to take his place while you've subsequently ruined that person's family and ability to operate within society and the laundry list of knock-on effects just goes on and on and on.
Heavy-handed sentencing is essentially just playing whack-a-mole.