I'm all for not harassing people with criminal charges for small possession and creating additional problems like incarceration, criminal records, etc. Nobody should have their lives ruined over a stupid coke party or whatever your drug of choice is.
That said, we need to find new ways to fight the plague that these drugs cause. Street gangs, violence, child porn and other abuse, domestic violence, robberies, murder and all those things have a strong connection to these drugs. They exist in the absence of these drugs but these problems are massively magnified by drugs.
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Reply to Canada's British Columbia tries decriminalizing drugs to fight overdose crisis by reuters
I'm all for not harassing people with criminal charges for small possession and creating additional problems like incarceration, criminal records, etc. Nobody should have their lives ruined over a stupid coke party or whatever your drug of choice is.
That said, we need to find new ways to fight the plague that these drugs cause. Street gangs, violence, child porn and other abuse, domestic violence, robberies, murder and all those things have a strong connection to these drugs. They exist in the absence of these drugs but these problems are massively magnified by drugs.