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Yeah! Lock up the meth heads, that’ll fix crime!

It literally does and it's good for the meth heads.

Yeah, nothing improves their prospects quite like adding a criminal record onto their drug addiction

Well you'd be adding a charge and hopefully mitigating the addiction, which is a rational tradeoff. And this is assuming this person doesn't already have a record.

I personally would prefer to do 6+ more jail and not have a record. Having a record punishes unnecessarily by destroying a persons future.

> Having a record punishes unnecessarily by destroying a persons future.

As opposed to doing drugs in a public park?

You’re right, we really should throw the baby out with the bath water.

Edit: 6 *months more in jail, in above post

Except I believe the person is better off with a record than continuing to do meth. You'd turn your back as the baby drowns in the tub. You might even open the faucet before doing so.

Weird strawman but okay.

No, you just can't follow the argument, but that's ok. At least you learned that your brand of sarcasm doesn't actually make you sound smarter.

I don’t recall ever letting a baby drown as part of an argument. You strawmanned.

My bad.

Slippery slope. They can start tightening things down and make it unacceptable lawfully as well as socially.

Portugal after experimenting with permissiveness is tightening down. We can do it too and save people from perdition.

Portugal is not tightening it down based on data, but based on perceptions. A shift to populism reverting previous progressive changes proves nothing.

Also, we didn't experiment with permissiveness, we fixed a heroin crisis that was completely out of control. You have no idea how bad it got before we stopped throwing addicts in jail and started providing them with rehab.

Source: I've lived here all my life.

Portugal after having massive success with actually dealing with addictions is backing down because of the budget.

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