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Originally Posted by Wormius
Yeah, so I am kind of confused why everyone becomes so puritanical about public drug use here.
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I think its pretty clear. The thing is...public drug use, zombies on the streets, muggings and robberies....bothers other people.
Individuals stoned out of their minds and in medical distress on the C-Train or at stations or on the streets bothers people.
You look out your back door and see people doing drugs in your yard? That bothers people.
They've broken the fundamental covenant.
If you dont have your own home we have places where you can pursue this lifestyle. Safe injection sites, free drugs, there are options. It again comes down to normalization.
This I think is the issue Canada has to address. I wont speak to America because I dont live there, but if you're getting blasted in public, regardless of your substance of choice, you've broken the covenant.
I've long advocated for European-style Alcohol policies. Because if you're wandering down the street with your wife and kids, you're not getting wasted because that is not the norm of your scenario.
Lock you up in a Beer Garden? Guaranteed different outcome.
Very similar. If you allow people to use public spaces to do hard drugs without consequence? Well...there is no 'without consequence.'
The only difference is that you're shifting that consequence onto society at large.
Its like if a child throws a tantrum in a store because they want candy and then giving them everything they want and letting them have it whenever and wherever they want.
Guess whats going to happen? You've normalized a behavioral pattern.