Comment on Colombian president says cocaine 'no worse than whisky'
Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks agoIt should be sold by the government then. Similar to how government handles the lottery, if they didn’t then some organized criminals would do it instead. They can control the stores and the packaging so it doesnt seem fun and cool and is just dosage information and a bunch of health facts and treatment plans. They can then direct the revenues to treatment and education.
If you just decriminalize consumption without legalizing some way to buy it then a lot of the problems with the war on drugs continue: crime, violence, lack of regulation etc.
I don’t have much faith in us handling it this way though considering the way we just effectively legalized gambling and now the most predatory companies are flooding addicts with advertisements to get them to gamble more.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
Yes totally agree. I missed that part on my comment. You totally need some way to buy product that is safe nd contains exactly what the label says. So many people use drugs without testing them and lots of drugs are adultured. Ironically, cocaine being the most notable for never being pure cocaine outside maybe in Colombia.