For example, I don’t use TikTok. I never have, and I never will, and I’d advise everyone else to get off the platform too. I genuinely believe it’s objectively harmful to people’s mental health and possibly even a threat to democracy. That said, I also believe people should be free to decide for themselves whether they want to use it or not, which is why I’m against the U.S. government banning it.
I think all drugs should be legal. I think using most of them is a bad idea.
I think the usage of all drugs should be legal, but I don’t think the sale or the production of all drugs should be legal.
Stop arresting people who are addicted to the stuff and just arrest the people who are spreading it around.
And no arresting people for “intent to sell” just because they have a lot. Do some actual detective work and catch them actually selling it.
The illegality of production and sale makes the drugs far more likely to be adulterated or a concentration other than advertised, which kills people. Prohibition causes black markets, which leads to people resolving disputes through violence since they can’t use the courts.
Legalization would make all of that go away, almost instantly.
I’ve been saying this for years. Not only that but once legal and in the regular market, companies are held liable for any additives not clearly labeled. No cutting your heroin with fentanyl unless you label it as such (bonus points if you have to give ratios of each ingredient) but aren’t on the hook if someone goes against label usage.
This protects both the consumer and provider.
Similarly, we should fully legalize prostitution. Want to kill the sex trafficking problem? Legalize prostitution, allow the workers to unionize, get legal support, and other securities that the normal blue and white collar workers have.
In a win for unionizing sex work (albeit in a different form than prostitution), a group of strippers in a Portland Oregon strip club have unionized!
That’s actually fucking dope. Anyone know how the union is doing ~1 year later?
I can’t speak to that, though I tried to look them up and find out but there are just a couple of articles from a year ago. But they basically just joined a much larger union of 50k+ actors and stage workers. I imagine they’re making headway.
Yes, I omitted that I didn’t think all production should be illegal but it should require standards and permits at least. No one should be producing them in a home made lab for example if they intend to sell it to others and all sales should be through pharmacies and legitimate businesses.
Yeah, what you want is called legalization.
That’s comparable to alcohol. I’d be good with that.
I am with you on this. Never tried any, and have absolutely no interest. And yet, the prohibition does more harm than good.
The number of people addicted to caffeine I have met is higher than any other drug. People openly talk about caffeine headaches around me and I’m always left wondering why they don’t just stop consuming so much of it.
Then again I also don’t understand the taking Advil/Aleve/Motrin/Aspirin/Tylenol and such all the time. I can understand taking them for irregular occurrences or even regular ones like cramps, but if a doctor isn’t telling you to take multiple pills daily, there is probably something else going on.
I argue that prohibition would’ve been more successful if it wasn’t radicalized and extreme. That is what it’s problem was and why so many were against it and it fell apart.