Most assaults and murders because of narcotic drugs are caused by gangs which profit off of drugs being illegal in the first place.
You saw the same exact phenomenon with alcohol. Banning alcohol led to a massive rise of organized crime. Legalizing and regulating substance-based vices, and creating laws that punish misuse of those substances, is the way to go. Like drunk driving laws, etc.
I have worked in the legal cannabis industry, and been around cannabis for many years. I watched it go from illegal to medical in my state, then medical to recreationally legal. In my high school basically everyone I knew smoked or had smoked weed before.
None of them were violent, all of them were made into criminals because of it because of bad laws.
Excellent points. I'd add that ending alcohol Prohibition in 1933 put a stop to the violence and corruption associated with the alcohol industry almost immediately, by removing the incentives for that violence and corruption IN A SINGLE DAY.
Not true. Assaults and murders go hand in hand with criminalization of any drug including alcohol. When you criminalize any desirable thing and make its cost 1000x higher than it should be you then create a highly profitable black market for said item and incentivize criminals to make cartels who profit off of addicts who have to pay 1000x what the cost should be. Those addicts are pushed into all types of crimes including violence once the extreme price drives them broke. Remember, extreme addicts will always be a small percentage of the population but they make a large impact when they are willing to commit major crimes. Gangsters and cartels make huge profits off of this system and attribute to widespread corruption in the government.
Keep in mind, my work has also been involved with supporting a group called Weed for Warriors, which advocates for medical uses of cannabis for veterans with PTSD, or other injuries they picked up on duty. None of those guys are criminals. They're all good, red blooded Americans who got beat up real bad serving our country, and I will advocate cannabis being available to treat whatever injuries or psychological trauma they picked up in the field to the day I die.
Care to find me the part in the constitution where it empowers the government to ban substances ingested for recreation? They don't have the right to limit how much chocolate you can buy, how much coffee you can drink, how much beer you drink, or how much pot you smoke either. The founding fathers didn't want a government that was nosing around in your personal consumption habits like that so long as you didn't cause damages to anyone else in doing so.
There is Considerable collateral damage from addictive drugs theft murder strip joints (ALL hooked on something and contract workers so no tax) so death penalty for the ducks dealing in that mandatory treatment for victimd
C'mon man NOT all drugs the addictive ones cocaine heroin fentnal meth pills all bad and destructive but weed natural psychedelics beneficial to the character of it's followers
Most assaults and murders because of narcotic drugs are caused by gangs which profit off of drugs being illegal in the first place.
You saw the same exact phenomenon with alcohol. Banning alcohol led to a massive rise of organized crime. Legalizing and regulating substance-based vices, and creating laws that punish misuse of those substances, is the way to go. Like drunk driving laws, etc.
I have worked in the legal cannabis industry, and been around cannabis for many years. I watched it go from illegal to medical in my state, then medical to recreationally legal. In my high school basically everyone I knew smoked or had smoked weed before.
None of them were violent, all of them were made into criminals because of it because of bad laws.
Excellent points. I'd add that ending alcohol Prohibition in 1933 put a stop to the violence and corruption associated with the alcohol industry almost immediately, by removing the incentives for that violence and corruption IN A SINGLE DAY.
THC paralyzes invertebrates too, not quite Ivermectin but oddly effective.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33221759/
Hell, they're studying cannabis and cannabinoids as covid-19 remedies as we speak. This is one paper of MANY.
Not true. Assaults and murders go hand in hand with criminalization of any drug including alcohol. When you criminalize any desirable thing and make its cost 1000x higher than it should be you then create a highly profitable black market for said item and incentivize criminals to make cartels who profit off of addicts who have to pay 1000x what the cost should be. Those addicts are pushed into all types of crimes including violence once the extreme price drives them broke. Remember, extreme addicts will always be a small percentage of the population but they make a large impact when they are willing to commit major crimes. Gangsters and cartels make huge profits off of this system and attribute to widespread corruption in the government.
Keep in mind, my work has also been involved with supporting a group called Weed for Warriors, which advocates for medical uses of cannabis for veterans with PTSD, or other injuries they picked up on duty. None of those guys are criminals. They're all good, red blooded Americans who got beat up real bad serving our country, and I will advocate cannabis being available to treat whatever injuries or psychological trauma they picked up in the field to the day I die.
Care to find me the part in the constitution where it empowers the government to ban substances ingested for recreation? They don't have the right to limit how much chocolate you can buy, how much coffee you can drink, how much beer you drink, or how much pot you smoke either. The founding fathers didn't want a government that was nosing around in your personal consumption habits like that so long as you didn't cause damages to anyone else in doing so.
There is Considerable collateral damage from addictive drugs theft murder strip joints (ALL hooked on something and contract workers so no tax) so death penalty for the ducks dealing in that mandatory treatment for victimd
C'mon man NOT all drugs the addictive ones cocaine heroin fentnal meth pills all bad and destructive but weed natural psychedelics beneficial to the character of it's followers
I would support death penalty for Dealing meth fentnal heroin oxy just like Trump treatment mandatory for users