12-11-2016, 11:56 AM
(12-11-2016, 11:34 AM)xxlt Wrote: It isn't just Portugal. From Colorado to Katmandu and everywhere in between, every place that has legalized anything (including the US that once banned alcohol) has found it works better. Damn those facts and their well known liberal bias.
Legalizing herion does not address the bigger crime problem. Even if it is legal addicts will need money to get their fix so some will still be stealing, robbing, and killing other people in order to supply their drug habit. Addicts are usually not very good at holding down jobs. Plus they will also be driving under the influence.
The one big benefit to legalization is that it removes some of the stigma of drug use and frees up resources for treatment that would have been used to lock up people for using drugs (not the collateral crime).
So legalization helps some, but it does not fix all the big problems.
But as long as everyone has access to a fully automatic weapon everything thing else will be fine.
