DEA’s No.2 quits amid reports of previous consulting work for Big Pharma - eviltoast
  • _cerpin_taxt_@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Legalize all drugs and treat addiction like the sickness it is. It’s worked very well in several countries already.

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      1 year ago

      Policies like that are about treating the addicts, not the distributors. I absolutely agree on that practice with regards to addicts, but we still need to go after the distributors of these lethal, destructive drugs.

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        1 year ago

        Just regulate them and allow safe amounts to be sold. Legalize drugs and regulate the hell out of the industry. Cartels are no match for the greedy corporations that will jump on the bandwagon and produce their own drugs. Kill cartels completely.

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          Cartels are essentially the same as multinational corporations. They just have the added benefit of the use of violence. They’ve already entered the legal weed industry.

          Casinos were legal and the mob was all over it. Unions in the NE were controlled be the mob. Legalizing something does not mean organized crime is going away.

          But it would reduce violence and suffering that our current drug laws create so ultimately still better