Death penalty for 500g of cannabis, rather violent. In France it would cause thousands of executions
A lot of people calling for the death of drug dealers assume that they themselves would be safe, but it doesn’t take much for the movement of state sponsored killing to become a lot more broad.
I don’t agree with the harsh punishments, though many western cities are being over taken by drugs, crime, and homelessness.
The current policies we have in places like LA and Seattle do not work, it’s plainly evident. Should we be more brutal in our punishments? Not necessarily. But we’ve tried this experiment since asylums were shut down decades ago, and it doesn’t seem to have produced the outcome expected.
Social safety net, mental health services, and other forms of dignity in civil society being some of them.
How safe or unsafe a place is has very little to do with the harshness of its laws and everything about the values of the people that leave there. Is there a general acceptance for law breaking? Is the law enforcement seen as corrupt? Are laws applied selectively? Are people seen as lawbreakers that "made it" seen as an example to aspire to? Is successfully "gaming the system" something one can use as a status symbol? Also, the level of poverty, how bad or good are the living conditions, access to (mental) healthcare. All these things are way more important that the harshness of penalties applied.
I have that now without the killings but whatever.
Not to mention leaving your laptop unattended is littering, and clean streets are also worth killing people. Or leaving your laptop unattended is being accomplice in cyber crime, and since they executed a guy for weed he never touched or was ever in posession of, guess you better never leave that laptoo on that table after all.
This entire argument is so gross and ugly it boggles any functioning mind.