Journal alternative_right's Journal: Decriminalize All The Drugs 2
I know drugs are bad (m'kay) and many of you have known people who have self-destructed with drugs.
However, criminalization clearly is not working, and legalization failed to get rid of the illegal drugs trade because when you tax stuff like a politician, you make it more expensive than what the free market offers.
I suggest we decriminalize all drugs, both recreational and medical. This means that we do not "legalize" and regulate, but simply do not make them illegal. People can make them, use them, store them, sell them, and give them away, and government gives neither the thumbs-up nor thumbs-down. It would be like geraniums or homemade apple pies.
The reasons are both complex and simple:
1. Stop giving power to a police state. The more cops are running around trying to stop the massive drug trade, the more they are going to have to compete with gangs in terms of firepower and surveillance.
2. "Freedom." I think freedom is a false goal but a good method. Why intervene anywhere where we do not have to? Let people make their own choices, and then the rest of us will react based on what we see. If great-uncle Edbert manages to kill himself with heroin, the whole community will know that heroin is probably a Bad Idea.
3. Social Darwinism. Many people who are currently alive are useless. Most of them really love drugs, gambling, alcohol abuse, and eating horribly unhealthy junk food. Let them. Let them do what they do, isolate the damage by reducing the cost of it (no sin taxes, no criminalization), and then let nature deal with them as it must. If we can, breed more coyotes, bears, snakes, and other predators to consume the unwary.
4. Misdirection. When we view our future in terms of managing negative problems like drugs, we stop thinking about all the positive stuff we should be doing, and the voters fall for this every time. Remember the Satanic Panic? COVID-19? Y2K? Panics are part of humanity and they make us negative, so we need to double down on constructive (production, creation, maintenance) activity instead of focusing all of our energy, time, and concentration on negatives.
Who's with me? Don't all shout at once.
Yes. And no. (Score:1)
Yes, but:
Ppl do not LOVE drugs, alcohol and stuff like that. They NEED it, at least most of the ppl do. It is addiction we are talking here.
And that was the only con. I am for that Idea of not illegaling stuff. Your arguments are good and valid.
I vote yes.
All good points (Score:1)
It's the obvious answer and has been around since I was young (long ago).
However:
It fails due to the influence of the police/lawyer/prison industrial complex which will continue to invoke panic in the plebs and bribe politicians to preserve their cash cow.
Ignorance and self interest always prevail.