I am very firmly is the legalise and tax it camp. There’s always going to be difficult discussions around which drugs and for who, but I did a lot of drugs when I was younger and in my opinion the...
I am very firmly is the legalise and tax it camp. There’s always going to be difficult discussions around which drugs and for who, but I did a lot of drugs when I was younger and in my opinion the two most dangerous aspects were what was in them and who I was getting them from.
Here in Aus it’s common knowledge that layers and accountants are hoovering up phenomenal quantities of coke on big horse racing days with apparently no interest from police, while music festival entrances resemble a prison. Water testing also shows affluent suburbs really like their coke, but when the cops set up testing sites it’s not in those areas. Used to be that they’d test for all the drugs except for coke in random roadside breath tests. Allegedly it cost more to exclude coke than test for all of them.
The war on drugs doesn’t look remotely successful to me, whatever your feelings are something needs to change.
The writing about the violence is incredibly hyperbolic. The mentioned instances are bad, but they're not prowling the streets at night looking for little girls to kidnap. Crime violence generally...
The writing about the violence is incredibly hyperbolic.
The mentioned instances are bad, but they're not prowling the streets at night looking for little girls to kidnap.
Crime violence generally sticks to crime on crime, and happens overall less than before.
Aside from that, when the people they're interviewing are so blatantly saying that there's no end in sight... Then why are we still doing the same things!? It's time to regulate and restrict instead of criminalise and forbid.
I am very firmly is the legalise and tax it camp. There’s always going to be difficult discussions around which drugs and for who, but I did a lot of drugs when I was younger and in my opinion the two most dangerous aspects were what was in them and who I was getting them from.
Here in Aus it’s common knowledge that layers and accountants are hoovering up phenomenal quantities of coke on big horse racing days with apparently no interest from police, while music festival entrances resemble a prison. Water testing also shows affluent suburbs really like their coke, but when the cops set up testing sites it’s not in those areas. Used to be that they’d test for all the drugs except for coke in random roadside breath tests. Allegedly it cost more to exclude coke than test for all of them.
The war on drugs doesn’t look remotely successful to me, whatever your feelings are something needs to change.
The writing about the violence is incredibly hyperbolic.
The mentioned instances are bad, but they're not prowling the streets at night looking for little girls to kidnap.
Crime violence generally sticks to crime on crime, and happens overall less than before.
Aside from that, when the people they're interviewing are so blatantly saying that there's no end in sight... Then why are we still doing the same things!? It's time to regulate and restrict instead of criminalise and forbid.