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Originally Posted by mineistaken
So you are saying there would be the same amount of people doing heroine if it was legal compared to when it is illegal? 
You use broken logic by saying that "people die when it is illegal" not understanding that this number would be far more greater if it was legal.
It's like saying - murderers kill people when it is illegal so no point of not making it legal. As if the number of murders would not increase
My point is - if it was legal we would have way more deaths. |
I disagree.
In Portugal they waged a war against drugs for years and did just like the U.S. does. They spent a lot of money and put a lot of people in jail and still had a big drug problem. So they did something different. They decriminalized all drugs. Instead of treating drug use and abuse/addiction like a crime they treated it like a medical condition. Instead of worrying about going to jail addicts could easily get help.
What happened?
10 years later drug abuse in Portugal has dropped by 50%.
Another example could be smoking. In 1965 42.4% of the population in the US smoked. In 2010 only 19.3% of the population were smokers. What changed? Education and information. In 1965 many people had no idea smoking was bad for you. As the amount of information and education grew fewer and fewer people began smoking and many that did smoke quit.