Drug prohibition
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@PotatoEngineer said in Drug prohibition:
@boomzilla about fucking time! Almost every state had some flavor of pot-permission laws, and it's a crying shame that marijuana remained on the "there is no possible medical benefit" list in the DEA. I'd be interested in watching a documentary of why it remained Schedule I for so long. Was some specific leader an anti-pot person? Was it bureaucratic inertia? DEA putting pressure on the FDA so it could keep doing civil forfeiture?
Also, yes. It's generally good business, keeps pesky minorities in jail, profits go right back to the arms industry and bribes, what's not to like?
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@LaoC said in Drug prohibition:
keeps pesky minorities in jail
The alternative seems to be letting them hassle all the non-pesky minorities, though.
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@boomzilla Canada legalized pot in October 2018.
We have complete chaos and anarchy everywhere since then.
Oh, wait. No we don't.
Maybe pot is a less dangerous drug than alcohol
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@TimeBandit doesn't change the fact that those pesky minority criminals mostly victimize people belonging to the same minority demographic. Maybe you guys just picked a different reason to keep them in jail.
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@boomzilla said in Drug prohibition:
Maybe you guys just picked a different reason to keep them in jail
Who, minorities and/or criminals? Nah, we just let 'em loose. But that's a topic for another forum category
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@boomzilla too little, should free the population to use whatever they want with no strings attached
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@sockpuppet7 It's a weird situation, with lots of states allowing just that, at least with marijuana. But due to the Feds a lot of weed based businesses have had issues with things like banking. I think that's been mostly resolved...at least, problems about it seem to not be reported on any more.
Experiments with harder drugs have been fewer and have mostly lead to more overdoses and homelessness in those jurisdictions. I'm not convinced that's a complete disaster of the policy since it's probably drawing some of the worse elements from other places, but it's also not exactly promising.
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@boomzilla said in Drug prohibition:
Experiments with harder drugs have been fewer and have mostly lead to more overdoses and homelessness in those jurisdictions. I'm not convinced that's a complete disaster of the policy since it's probably drawing some of the worse elements from other places, but it's also not exactly promising.
Yeah, look at Oregon, which decriminalized basically all drugs. And then just this year repealed that, since it went very badly (to put it mildly). Overdoses, public disorder, crime associated with the drug trade--through the roof.
And weed is totally legal... But the black market still exists and there's still crime associated with it. Because, as it turns out, junkies will junkie and don't pay much attention to other laws.
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This reminds me of an article in the news earlier this week (not gonna search it's Dutch anyway) about one Nicky Minaj who was caught outbound to the UK with a hundred or so grams of weed, which landed her a €450 fine. It was lucky for her that she didn't get caught on the other end of the flight, where it could've gotten her years of jailtime instead.
