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MohamedsMorocco t1_j6mlfiu wrote

In conjencture with assisted suicide laws, this should greatly reduce Canada's mental health budget. Feeling sad? Take some drugs. Stuck in a downward spiral of drug use? Kill yourself.

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LordLurker420 t1_j6mmwug wrote

Or we can try making them more illegal. You know since that’s worked out so well for us.

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MohamedsMorocco t1_j6moma4 wrote

I don't know, plenty of countries have successful strict drug laws. Drugs just seem to be part of North American culture. A lot of popular NA music is about drugs, they find kids hopped up on drugs after a vist to the dentist to be funny, etc. It's not enough to have intermittent efforts to stump out drug use, which is what you're referring to, there needs to be a sustained effort, which politicians and law enforcement are not capable of carrying because they don't see drug use as a big deal, because it's part of the culture.

It's like trying to fight littering ina developing country, it's difficult because people have a high level of tolerance to garbage in the street. They only care once garbage start stacking up high blocking streets and sidewalks and things start to smell really bad, just like how North Amricans only care about hard drug use when people start dying in droves.

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BiBoFieTo t1_j6mr2rj wrote

This is wrong. In 2016, over 45% of US federal prisoners were convicted of a drug offence. The US has the highest incarceration rate in the world.

When Nixon started the 'War on Drugs' in the 70s', the US incarceration rate was approx. 160 per 100,000 people. In the following thirty years it ballooned to 700 per 100,000, yet people still used and distributed drugs.

There hasn't been an intermittent effort to stamp out drug use. It has been a relentless march that has gone nowhere. The winner of the war on drugs is drugs.

The government of Canada has rightly switched to harm reduction strategies with hard drugs, and decriminalized less harmful drugs like marijuana.

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Relevant-Designer596 t1_j6mwtdc wrote

It’s not just drugs you guys are animals in America anyways. If it wasn’t for drugs it would be for violent offences.

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M1dnightMuse t1_j6n5cgk wrote

Iunno. Many more people are willing to smoke a joint than kill someone.

But the issue is more that our prisons are:

  1. Allowed to be ran for profit and receive money for every prison incarcerated.

  2. Are allowed to use the incarcerated as slave labor.

So the elite rig the system to incarcerate as many as possible so private, for profit prisons can print blood money.

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LordLurker420 t1_j6mtwzh wrote

Please tell me about these successful countries that have strict drug policies. Russia? Any of the middle eastern hell holes with human rights abuses? China ? With concentration camps of Muslims? Thailand ? Where execution is a punishment ?

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MohamedsMorocco t1_j6mui5k wrote

Pretty much any functional state outside North America. Even Latin American countries that produce hard drugs, have use under contol better than Canada and the US.

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LordLurker420 t1_j6mwi0n wrote

Latin American countries with narco terrorists driving mass migration? That’s successful? How ignorant do young be to be to call a country with cartels successful

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Relevant-Designer596 t1_j6mx0cr wrote

Any european and especially east european country. Singapore. Australia. Don’t kid yourself, the problem is also the people in the us not just the laws.

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LordLurker420 t1_j6myr0d wrote

Singapore has the death penalty for drug trafficking. That’s successful to you? European Union countries have relaxed drug laws. Australia ? Lol clown

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M1dnightMuse t1_j6n62fc wrote

Sure because we live in a black/white world without nuance.

It takes quite a while to get an assisted suicide.

I can't speak for this decriminalization measure, but typically they're aimed to provide more care for drug users, ensuring what they're doing is safe and clean, and that there are resources for those that have issues with drugs.

It's a lot easier to seek out help for an addiction if you know they won't imprison you for it.

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