Posted by Kromey at 4:40pm Feb 13 '12Despite the histrionics of the anti-drug crowd, decriminalization of drugs has been proven to reduce costs, reduce loss of life and health, and even to reduce addiction rates!
Of course, this isn't news to folks who pay attention to such things -- folks who know that the overwhelming majority of drug users are recreational users, not addicts, and suffer little-to-no adverse affects other than unjust persecution -- but it's nice to finally have an example to point to that proves the decriminalization is not the Armageddon the "drug warriors" want us to believe it is.
This also isn't news to the World Health Organization, either, who despite their report being suppressed for purely political reasons (and which they now even officially deny exists) long ago tried to tell us that even "hard" drugs are nowhere near as bad as we've been told.
Not to mention the obvious effects on the Mexican drug cartels -- and the violence they sow -- if their power were to be stripped away from them by all but completely obliterating the black market for drugs overnight.
Of course, this isn't news to folks who pay attention to such things -- folks who know that the overwhelming majority of drug users are recreational users, not addicts, and suffer little-to-no adverse affects other than unjust persecution -- but it's nice to finally have an example to point to that proves the decriminalization is not the Armageddon the "drug warriors" want us to believe it is.
This also isn't news to the World Health Organization, either, who despite their report being suppressed for purely political reasons (and which they now even officially deny exists) long ago tried to tell us that even "hard" drugs are nowhere near as bad as we've been told.
Not to mention the obvious effects on the Mexican drug cartels -- and the violence they sow -- if their power were to be stripped away from them by all but completely obliterating the black market for drugs overnight.
Shocker: Decriminalizing drugs works! - Kromey