I agree with the OP's "decriminalize but don't outright legalize" mentality.
We're too austere with drugs. It's unjust that you can give someone a life sentence in jail just for taking or selling drugs, especially while (simultaneously) you've got rapists getting off the hook with 3 month jail sentences. The "war on drugs" is utter bullshit.
The best thing to do is create an open dialogue about drugs. Stop making it such a taboo, talk about the risks, the effects, the addictiveness, give users more access to rehab and other support services. Maybe then we'll stop seeing so many people getting out of control with drug problems while also making it less of a stigma to take drugs.
We're too austere with drugs. It's unjust that you can give someone a life sentence in jail just for taking or selling drugs, especially while (simultaneously) you've got rapists getting off the hook with 3 month jail sentences. The "war on drugs" is utter bullshit.
The best thing to do is create an open dialogue about drugs. Stop making it such a taboo, talk about the risks, the effects, the addictiveness, give users more access to rehab and other support services. Maybe then we'll stop seeing so many people getting out of control with drug problems while also making it less of a stigma to take drugs.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
