Comment on Anon is vengeful

• maynarkh@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That said, there are drugs which fuck your life up even in the very short term, and dealing them absolutely be criminalized. Using them should be a medical problem, but dealing? Straight to jail.

  Just to be clear, I’m not talking about pot here.

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  • Prunebutt@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If prisons would work, the US would be drug-free by now.

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• Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah but heroin isn’t weed

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  • naeap@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Heroin withdrawal is shit, but compared to alcohol or benzos it’s at least not deadly. Also opiates are not hard on the body.

    The problem with opiates is mostly getting clean ones - and the money for it.

    In Switzerland they have a program, where they hand you clean heroin to addicts and with a safe clean supply they can work, get a grip on their life again, and they start to reduce the dosage themselves after some time.

    The social stigma and the idea to punish someone out of addiction is obviously bullshit.
    People usually self medicate because of problems. So solving those problems is the right approach and not just taking away crutch.

    Also the state is losing quite some money with the prohibition - on multiple fronts

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  • Aggravationstation@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Heroin also isn’t the same as the media likes to portray it. You don’t magically turn into a crazed addict who’d sell their own grandmother for a hit as soon as you look at some. That’s the same crap that used to be said about weed. Plenty of people live totally productive lives and use heroin regularly.

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    • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What’s your standard for “productive”

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      • Prunebutt@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        What’s yours?

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  • sukhmel@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But we also don’t know what was sold, so we may guess from the statistics of trafficking that it was stimulators or weed:

    drug trafficking offenses per drug: methamphetamine and cocaine about 24% each, marijuana 22%, crack cocaine 13%, heroin 10%

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  • Prunebutt@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Prohibition still doesn’t work.

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