America Is A Terrible Country

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Decriminalization is NOT the same thing as LEGALIZATION.

Decriminalization is ok if DONE RIGHT not just some lazy ass excuse of "it's all good now". This is just shallow thinking. And has a lot of risks that not a single soul here seems to even acknowledge...

Legalization is wrong - right now in our time - because it's also lazy, shallow and proper thought form that belongs to people who have no fucking clue what they are actually advocating.

Yeah... Drugs are completely harmless, right? Any harm it causes, it's you doing to your own body... it's the principle of freedom right? Nobody's business...

...sure... they just come out of thin air right? You just wish them into existence... no no no... you are certainly not giving your money to Drug Cartels and funneling cash into other bigger and much more dangerous criminal activities... of course not! That would be silly to even presume... surely all drugs come from hippies that plant and brew on their own happy little backyards. Y'know... drug user are famously known to be industrious and diligent with their production and supply... You would surely break the legs of all the drug lords and gangs that provide as suppliers if you simply let people do it for themselves... overnight! Might even balance the state budget if you tax it! People love diluted shit at high markup prices... that would totally not ever feed an alternative market.

Of course a drug dealer would NEVER exploit the limits of the law around decriminalization to distribute drugs locally without ever being caught. Criminals never exploit the fine print and limits of the law to build their commerce...

Of course you don't have to look beyond your borders... why bother with an Entire country in Africa whose government is completely comprised and run by South American drug cartels?! Silly to even worry about it... if you simply legalize it you will be taking the cash out of these bad people!! Of course!! There is no way the people who already master and control all the supply and logistics of Drugs from light to heavy could ever use that opening to legally laundry their drug money to funnel it to other stuff... that just never happens!

Sure!! let's give the government control and responsibility to oversee this entire system, cause they sure as fuck do a fantastic job on all that other stuff they do.. right?! Sure there won't be any lobbies trying to get their hands in that... and how much money do drug cartels have really? A couple of million? A couple dozen million? per year? Pocket change! it could never influence and distort such a fine system...

And of course... pricing. The Market for it!! I'm sure the Tobacco industry who at one point was such an unstoppable legal force that would outweigh local government with legal muscle and has been shrunken and been squeezed over the years would NEVER have any sort of interest in working with other legalized narcotics... i mean, people just walk around all day long prancing about the medical wonders and betterment and how safe and harmless most of them are and can be... it's totally not the same as when the tobacco industry would pour loads of cash to promote Cigarrettes as "good for your throat"... i mean, people are doing it for free for them now! where is the fun in that right?

I mean... regulate it, dillute it, mix with other shit approved by the government, tax it... the price will go up sure. But people will go for it... right?

We don't have to worry about it... just legalize it and it will be fine. No need to think about the fine print... let's just stomp our ground and demand what we want, let those who actually do it worry about the details...

I mean, it's not like you can actually focus your money and willpower into improving the safety nets and regulations and prying the industrial interest out of the control over sick people and provide better and more appealing and plentiful facilities to take care of those who actually suffer from their addiction instead of... you know... legalizing shit and hoping it all fits tetris-style. Probably would improve your tax rate though... but who wouldn't want to pay more for that delicious piece of bureaucracy?

But hey... no need for bureaucracy right? You can just copy another country... surely doing the exact same thing a country with a different legal system, different laws, different culture, different individual values, different commerce, different geo-political standings and situations, different global interests, different budget, different political system, different tax code, surrounded by completely different neighbors is going to wield the exact same results... i just know it.

Seriously... All you guys have are a bunch of T-shirt logos. Or you just really care about your own backyard and refuse to acknowledge that the things you want have real problems that no fix was presented for yet... at least not one that can actually work in the real world where everybody actually lives in...