07-24-2017, 08:19 PM
And what makes you think that it is any less the case now, relative to a previous time? What material evidence is there to support that the 'war on drugs' (a euphemism for the war on minorities) is not still on-going today?
As for drugs being legalized and regulated, yes and no, but it also depends on the drug. Obviously, something like meth or heroine or PCP or crack-cocaine should not be legalized for use under any circumstances. However, they shouldn't be criminalized either. Drug use and addiction is a health and psychological issue, not a criminal one. There is evidence in other countries that drug use does decrease when they are legalized, but a more fundamental solution is to make access to mental health easier and more affordable for people.
As for drugs being legalized and regulated, yes and no, but it also depends on the drug. Obviously, something like meth or heroine or PCP or crack-cocaine should not be legalized for use under any circumstances. However, they shouldn't be criminalized either. Drug use and addiction is a health and psychological issue, not a criminal one. There is evidence in other countries that drug use does decrease when they are legalized, but a more fundamental solution is to make access to mental health easier and more affordable for people.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)