We are throwing people in jail because they don't have a doctors note for their painkillers. Does anyone else see the MADNESS of that? Am I taking crazy pills!?!? It's criminally insane, truly.
The elements of a crime are injury and intent. Actus Reus and Mens rea. When someone possess or sells something, anything, neither are present. Certainly medicines/drugs.
The only people who benefit, besides the medical cartels, are cops, judges, prisons, lawyers and the KM/DS.
Also, if "they" want someone in jail or dead, all they need to do is plant some "drugs" on them and that's all she fucking wrote. Done.
All drugs need to be legalized immediately and sold to adults in drug stores, pure and clean. All the associated crime/gangs will disappear overnight. It's the ONLY solution. We MUST drop the brainwashing and face this.
They had been fighting the biker gangs in Canada for decades, at great cost. They legalized weed and the bikers were put mostly out of business almost overnight. If they legalized everything else, they'd be totally gone.
Using the criminal law to parent adults is fucked up beyond measure.
Cocaine can be harvested and legally produced for about the same price as sugar.
That's the problem with the decriminalization that follows CO's original premise. It makes the state a part of the criminal element, it doesn't remove any criminality. The result? The black market still exists because weed grows everywhere and it's ridiculously cheap. The legal stuff is about triple the cost (or was) and now the government is moving aggressive to get the "illegal" weed cleaned up so that they can monopolize the money.
There should be no control. You do something stupid, like drive impaired, then you have an offense.
I might be convinced about purity standards and testing, but that should still be a consumer protection function - a batch tests bad and it's all pulled and refunded at the expense of the company that made it - not a law enforcement function.
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