Q. wrote:amber_fluid wrote:morell wrote:HH3 wrote:
You think it'll be harder to get and more expensive if it was legalised?
Do we want to limit access and increase the price? Or actually solve the problem of drug addiction?
When someone is willing to rob a petrol station after already selling everything they have just to feed a habit, the "threat" of a criminal conviction for drug use aint going to do shit other than put these people further into a spiral.
The price is also moot. As one drug goes up in price, people find a cheaper alternative. The cheaper the product, usually the more dangerous the ingredients - again, causing more issues.
How does legalising it help solve the problem of drug addiction?
Like you said the price of it is almost irrelevant and making it easier to access(even thought it's easy already) won't fix that problem.
Two-fold economic effect. Criminal justice system uses less resources/funding + State income stream -> $$$ diverted to treatment programs.
Control the supply, control the dose = No more overdoses
Ability to ween
Ability to monitor health
Ability to put in place mitigation programs
Tax revenue - See Cigarettes and Alcohol
More money = more treatment programs
Crime reduction
No more shanking people in alleys for your fix
Black market and trafficking disappears
As Q. mentioned, less load on criminal system
There is this myth I think, that drug addicts are somehow strolling through the daisies, having a grand old time, getting high like it’s the 60’s at Woodstock. That is simply not reality. When used by people that are dependent and addicted, they are more often than not using drugs as an escape – from a mental health issue, poverty or abuse …
By installing a legalised system, you increase the ability to solve the problem that is causing them to want to take drugs, rather than treating the outcome. By criminalising it, you’re just making the problems that makes them want to take drugs, worse.