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.
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.