Pax Mongolica
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If we assume black people are more inclined to use drugs, possibly.
Are you sure white supremacists are the problem?
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If we assume black people are more inclined to use drugs, possibly.
Look at Jackson Miss
The worst shit hole in the state and 82% black
The rate of violent crime is 237 percent higher than the rest of the state
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So it's a part of the problem.
Pax Mongolica
Equality is Fantasy
It becomes a self-solving problem if we just stop policing majority black areas. Enough lethal overdoses eventually weed out the weak.
Stop making certain drugs illegal. That would solve the problem.
And yes I agree. It would weed out the weak.
Pax Mongolica
Equality is Fantasy
I'd be fine with that if we simultaneously ended the welfare state. The more the population tends to get drugged up, the less productive it becomes. Portugal saw addiction rates rise after their decriminalization experiment.
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Pffft.
Portugal is a great model!
Pax Mongolica
Equality is Fantasy
When the idea was first presented, it seemed interesting, but now that we have about a decade of information showing the results, it's not exactly a success story.
I would post a link to what I'm talking about, but it appears that I don't have enough posts yet to do that. Just look up addiction rates in Portugal. Nearly every substance saw a rise after decriminalization, and some of them were quite dramatic.
Homicide rate there went up by 60%
difficult to compare addiction rates to when it was illegal to now easily counted under decriminalization.
But the big win is for harm reduction to both the addicts and society, by legalization/decrim
and the drug cartels. etc
Mixed Results For Portugal's Great Drug Experiment
When Portugal decriminalized all illegal drugs in 2000, officials hoped to reduce addiction rates and drug-related violence. Today, more users are in rehab, but drug use is on the rise, and reporter Keith O'Brien says the policy has made the problem worse.
https://www.npr.org/2011/01/20/133086356/Mixed-Results-For-Portugals-Great-Drug-Experiment
Pax Mongolica
Equality is Fantasy
I understand that they favor this approach due to it encouraging people to seek treatment, but I like the Malaysian approach. Drug trafficking still happens there, but not as much as here, since those who are caught are killed.
Pax Mongolica
Equality is Fantasy
It is true that legalization makes the recording of rates easier. Still, rates don't seem to be that high in countries that take an extremely harsh approach, like Malaysia.
One thing's for sure, we would have less of a problem with the border crisis had we delegalized, say, cocaine.
Pax Mongolica
Equality is Fantasy
Thanks. In Malaysia, the amount regarded as "trafficking" is pretty low for most drugs, and since the penalty is death, you don't exactly have repeat offenders.
To clarify my earlier post, the "encouraging" reference was to your link about Portugal's policy. I don't think Malaysia's focus is on encouraging people to seek treatment. Their approach is to just discourage people from using (or selling) drugs in general.
Pax Mongolica
Equality is Fantasy
Most of the money made by cartels is in human trafficking. Legalizing or decriminalizing all drugs would reduce the value of most substances, but it wouldn't really affect the biggest moneymaker for cartels.