• TheBlackLounge@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Its harm potential is somewhere in between. To put it in perspective, alcohol is worse than heroin. And like alcohol addicts, your friends should be able to get a clean and safe source to reduce damage, and the help they need without any fear of persecution.

    You can’t criminalize problems away. It evidently didn’t help your friends.

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      7 months ago

      I don’t think alcohol is worse than heroin by any means, although the harm that alcohol does is definitely underestimated.

      I’d also like to say that I don’t necessarily think the use should be criminalized. Putting addicts in jail solves nothing and the justice system should be concentrating on the ones that sell it. Making it legal will just make more addicts, and won’t help the ones that currently are.

      It’s also harder to stop abusing something if it’s sold in every city legally. Dealers go to jail and their numbers can be deleted.

      Decriminalization but making the sale highly illegal while offering free rehab to the ones that need it is the way forward imo.