And amazing how we do the same old thing every time, like drug prohibition wasn’t proven to be at best ineffective like roughly a hundred years ago with the prohibition.
We truly learn nothing from history, do we?
Yup, prohibition only works to criminalise everyone and endanger users. I’m of the opinion we ought to be legalising and regulating to be able to provide clean shit, good education, and counselling etc if someone is then struggling.
I think, although I'm obviously not an expert, but AFAIK the Swiss are pretty good when it comes to their drug policies, especially with the heavy stuff like heroin:
In the early 1990s, the Swiss government adopted a new approach that focused on harm reduction, treatment, social support, and heroin-assisted treatment (HAT), in which addicts were prescribed heroin in controlled doses.
In 1994, Switzerland opened the first HAT clinics as part of a multiyear trial. People in the program went to a clinic once or twice a day and used their prescription under medical supervision. The heroin in the programs was of a predetermined strength and purity and had no adulterants, and users injected it with clean equipment.
Switzerland has also set up drug consumption rooms where users can inject heroin under safe conditions, and it also uses syringe exchange programs.
Studies found that HAT and the other harm reduction measures have led to a 60% decrease in felony crimes by patients, an 82% decrease in patients selling heroin, and reduced HIV rates and overdose deaths among IV users.
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But can't have that, gotta keep them prisons full.
Anything that is not on the level of heroin, like weed, MDMA, LSD, shrooms should imo be legal, but heavily regulated, also major expansion of prevention and rehab.
I’m kinda conflicted with her case tbh. Prison DEFINITELY bad, but it’s likely the safest place for her rn given the circumstances? She got/did enough to make local news, and get her house & car shot up. I like to think I’m fairly educated on the (safe®) consumption of substances, but I’m pretty naive when it comes to the business side of things and maybe that’s just how that stuff works, but guns feel like a whole other level. She was in too deep.
Oh man, that sounds real bad, although you can definitely argue that with different socioeconomic circumstances(like in a socialist society) she would probably not have felt the necessity to get into such a downward spiral.
Again, sorry to hear all that, I hope everything turns out right and she gets back on course if I can say it like that.
Education is the big one for me. Here in aus everything’s still well illegal, no end user tests their shit, and even if they knew it was dirty they’d likely still imbibe anyway.
I'm in Germany, it's basically the same here, it sucks ass and everybody knows it. Still didn't stop the last government spokesperson on drug policies to say shit like "Weed is prohibited because it's illegal". Yeah, like no shit, huh?
The new one isn't much better either.
Weed is my crux
Mine as well
PGR
oof
My family member is in for a decent number of years, I do hope she can get herself clean and away from it all. All that just to make a life of yourself, it sucks pretty bad.
That does suck. Are your prisons as bad as those in the US or more lenient, like Scandinavian ones?
That was my reaction as well, now keep in mind that he most likely is just the tip of the tip of the iceberg.
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The only ones who should be in prison for drug-related crimes are pharma ceos flooding communities with oxy and all that shit.
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Sorry to hear that, hope it’s not for too long!
And amazing how we do the same old thing every time, like drug prohibition wasn’t proven to be at best ineffective like roughly a hundred years ago with the prohibition.
We truly learn nothing from history, do we?
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I think, although I'm obviously not an expert, but AFAIK the Swiss are pretty good when it comes to their drug policies, especially with the heavy stuff like heroin:
But can't have that, gotta keep them prisons full.
Anything that is not on the level of heroin, like weed, MDMA, LSD, shrooms should imo be legal, but heavily regulated, also major expansion of prevention and rehab.
Oh man, that sounds real bad, although you can definitely argue that with different socioeconomic circumstances(like in a socialist society) she would probably not have felt the necessity to get into such a downward spiral.
Again, sorry to hear all that, I hope everything turns out right and she gets back on course if I can say it like that.
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I'm in Germany, it's basically the same here, it sucks ass and everybody knows it. Still didn't stop the last government spokesperson on drug policies to say shit like "Weed is prohibited because it's illegal". Yeah, like no shit, huh?
The new one isn't much better either.
Mine as well
oof
That does suck. Are your prisons as bad as those in the US or more lenient, like Scandinavian ones?
Only lock up? Revisionist :gui:
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