Personally, I'm inclined towards the direction of "legalize everything," at least drug-wise. Why? If you think the situation is bad enough when the US locks up an entire percent of its population, mostly for minor drug offenses, and still manages to lose the War on Drugs, wait until you look at what happens when a nation actually manages to stop the flow of drugs, like Russia managed to do with heroin.
So, what do you think happens when the junkies of Moscow can't get their fix? Do they get sober, or do they create something even worse? If you guessed the latter, you're clearly familiar with the patterns of Russian history. When they couldn't get heroin, they synthesised Desomorphine from Codeine. Desomorphine is a variation on morphine with a high that's 8 times as intense as heroin, and only lasts 15 minutes. And because these are junkies who don't have the benefit of that much education in chemistry, let alone the sort of safety and cleanliness procedures that would allow for safe synthesis of drugs, there's a lot of impurities in the Desomorphine. Life expectancy of a user from first hit to last breath is somewhere in the area of 2 years. In the meantime, you get all sorts of fucked-up side effects. Earlier in the process, skin around the injection sites starts to get green and scaly, which gave the drug its street name, Krokodil. And that's the good parts. Later in the downward spiral, your skin starts to rot off. Imagine the worst parts of Jared Leto's arm getting more and more gangrenous in Requiem for a Dream combined with the Nazis opening the Ark of the Covenant in Raiders of the Lost Ark and you start to get an idea of what you're dealing with. Google Image Search the word, and one of the first things you'll find is a picture of a Russian Junkie whose skin has rotted so badly that his ulna and radius are clearly visible. Not the outlines of the bones behind the skin, mind you, the bones themselves. This is what winning the War on Drugs really looks like.
Basically, they ended up with a flesh-eating opioid. And, despite having over a hundred thousand users in Russia and the Ukraine, it's never caught on in other countries for a very simple reason: they can get proper heroin that doesn't make your skin melt off. It's still illegal, but because their police aren't able to totally catch up to the black market, they can still get it.
And when your choices are between A) flesh eating opioids that only exist because the government has a stranglehold on the drug trade, B) a drug policy that's bad enough that we lock up a higher percent of the population than any other nation in history with the possible exception of the Nazis, but also incompetent enough that it doesn't actually stop the flow of drugs into the country, and C) just fucking legalise it, I know what I'm going to choose.
So, what do you think happens when the junkies of Moscow can't get their fix? Do they get sober, or do they create something even worse? If you guessed the latter, you're clearly familiar with the patterns of Russian history. When they couldn't get heroin, they synthesised Desomorphine from Codeine. Desomorphine is a variation on morphine with a high that's 8 times as intense as heroin, and only lasts 15 minutes. And because these are junkies who don't have the benefit of that much education in chemistry, let alone the sort of safety and cleanliness procedures that would allow for safe synthesis of drugs, there's a lot of impurities in the Desomorphine. Life expectancy of a user from first hit to last breath is somewhere in the area of 2 years. In the meantime, you get all sorts of fucked-up side effects. Earlier in the process, skin around the injection sites starts to get green and scaly, which gave the drug its street name, Krokodil. And that's the good parts. Later in the downward spiral, your skin starts to rot off. Imagine the worst parts of Jared Leto's arm getting more and more gangrenous in Requiem for a Dream combined with the Nazis opening the Ark of the Covenant in Raiders of the Lost Ark and you start to get an idea of what you're dealing with. Google Image Search the word, and one of the first things you'll find is a picture of a Russian Junkie whose skin has rotted so badly that his ulna and radius are clearly visible. Not the outlines of the bones behind the skin, mind you, the bones themselves. This is what winning the War on Drugs really looks like.
Basically, they ended up with a flesh-eating opioid. And, despite having over a hundred thousand users in Russia and the Ukraine, it's never caught on in other countries for a very simple reason: they can get proper heroin that doesn't make your skin melt off. It's still illegal, but because their police aren't able to totally catch up to the black market, they can still get it.
And when your choices are between A) flesh eating opioids that only exist because the government has a stranglehold on the drug trade, B) a drug policy that's bad enough that we lock up a higher percent of the population than any other nation in history with the possible exception of the Nazis, but also incompetent enough that it doesn't actually stop the flow of drugs into the country, and C) just fucking legalise it, I know what I'm going to choose.
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I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
