Thanks for sharing this. We really need to change prohibition ASAP. If 92k American citizens die from drug every year then that's 90k reasons to end prohibition.
I believe that it is the government's responsibility to recognize people all around the world will use substances that adulterate in one form or another regardless of laws that prevent its use. The government's subsequent responsibility after that acknowledgment is to provide safely regulated substances. This will open the door to the development of new social contracts about how and where these substances can be used. The fear that people will seek out these substances in large masses is overplayed, but should not be the deterrent that keeps people buying in an underground market where the risk and harm to society at large are much more deleterious. Developing a social contract for use will leave open opportunities to help people screen themselves for abusive use of substances, allows them to access services for treatment and medical services should they desire it, allows the government to accurately account for the amount of drug use, and types of harms in their individual countries. The time is now to move forward removing the power of the illicit trades in substances formerly prohibited thereby creating safer communities where we can truly focus on crimes against children, human rights violations, improving poverty and nutritional outcomes and a fairer, better world.
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Thanks for sharing this. We really need to change prohibition ASAP. If 92k American citizens die from drug every year then that's 90k reasons to end prohibition.
I believe that it is the government's responsibility to recognize people all around the world will use substances that adulterate in one form or another regardless of laws that prevent its use. The government's subsequent responsibility after that acknowledgment is to provide safely regulated substances. This will open the door to the development of new social contracts about how and where these substances can be used. The fear that people will seek out these substances in large masses is overplayed, but should not be the deterrent that keeps people buying in an underground market where the risk and harm to society at large are much more deleterious.
Developing a social contract for use will leave open opportunities to help people screen themselves for abusive use of substances, allows them to access services for treatment and medical services should they desire it, allows the government to accurately account for the amount of drug use, and types of harms in their individual countries.
The time is now to move forward removing the power of the illicit trades in substances formerly prohibited thereby creating safer communities where we can truly focus on crimes against children, human rights violations, improving poverty and nutritional outcomes and a fairer, better world.
Prohibition excludes the option of lessening the symptoms and impact of drug-related crime. This is a fact that is true on many different levels.