I support the treatment funding, however Harper is holding back on supporting safe injection sites for example.
The war on drugs is a massive failure as we know it today, its a colossal one in the US.
The biggest problem we have as a society is our own ignorance about the effects, risks, dangers or drugs and this starts from a very early age.
I think the best move we could make is to legalize marijuana, get the criminals out of this large industry. But as for harder drugs, there are certainly more difficult issues to deal with.
The thing for me that bothers me the most is when you attempt intelligent debate on this issue, the mis-information campaigns of anti-drug groups rear their ugly head. Mushrooms make your brain bleed! Marijuana is a gateway drug!
Mdma (extacy) is a powerfull tool for psychologists that since it became something fun to party with in Texas long ago, it was banned as a class 1 drug. Now there are underground groups of therapists using mdma as a powerfull healing tool for more severe cases, and of course some less so.
Mushrooms (psilocybin, psilocin) are giving cluster headache users their biggest hope of relief for this BRUTAL affliction. A headache my friend described to me as wishing for death the whole time its hitting you.
Marijuana - Its healing/positive benefits for people going through cancer treatments, people with all kinds of afflications, is well known and well proven.
I do agree meth is a huge concern, heroin as well, and even cocaine to a point. The point I'm making is we have 3 drugs posted above which can if controlled be used legally, safely and under controlls similar to alcohol.
That would allow us to use our resources to go after other more concerning drugs with resources to help the roots of those problems.
Another topic related is prescription drug abuse by young people, and the over medication of our children by mental health professionals.
However a good open, intelligent debate is nearly impossible without the rhetoric of anti drug proponents and people who are simply uneducated in what they are so against.
Use our resources smartly, legalize soft drugs and spend the money/resources going after the more addictive and problematic drugs. Not just jailing up everyone and thinking this is the solution (hi USA).
On the topic of dealers. We all have such an easy time making them into evil figures in our society. They are reacting to a demand, you arrest them; someone else takes their place. If there is demand, there is going to be people supplying.
So if you hate dealers, why do you give the users such a pass? I hear this all the time, even from friends who buy pot, mdma, even cocaine.. They are all angels, while the dealers supplying them are so evil.
But let start somewhere, legalize at least marijuana, and soften the laws against mdma/mushrooms. That would be a good start
