Not to mention the citizens who are victimized by the crime needed to sustain that addiction.
Legalization of marijuana has gone fine, but there are drugs so powerful that adults lose all control and reason, and I can’t see ever legalizing something like that.
You mean like alcohol?
Keep in mind cocaine goes for $6/g there, and that's gringo street price.
Degenerate coke fiends can't be rationalized into "poor byproducts of the war on drugs". They're gnarly, and I'm glad to be away from them. God bless the USCG.
You should also consider that your idea of the "vast majority of documented violence related to drugs" is probably very far from the real set of violence related to drugs, in no small part because as you admit: it happens in black markets, where documentation is notoriously unreliable.
And, FWIW, my case is in all likelihood present in 0 "documentations". I was able to talk to the police briefly after, but it was treated as a robbery (and completely disregarded).
On a Silicon Valley VC site?
Y no, no soy colombiano pero mi familia si lo es. Soy de otro narco-state.
We have data point after data point about the destructiveness of drugs on people - either it’s fentanyl or more “legal” opiates.
The idea of hardcore legalization is the ultimate outcome of capitalism without morality or awareness of consequences.
Don't know if I buy this. In general, parties pushing for legalization fall more on the left side of the political spectrum. I can also appreciated that libertarians on the far-right think the same (shoehorn theory?) but on the right this is a fringe opinion, unlike in the left.
Its the exact same dynamic that is destroying liberal democracies world wide.