the best solution if you want to reduce light and hard drug usage is to increase quality of life via parks, libraries, and education. to quote my all time favorite poster, @DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com , “seriously!”
it seems counter intuitive that you should address drugs through not the drugs, but when you’re dealing with drugs you have to take into consideration that the reason people use them is to address a chemical imbalance in their brain. drugs are a short term fix to a long term problem for the user. if you’re going to address the long term problems with drugs, you have to create long term solutions to the problems that create a need for them. if you set up short term impediments to drug acquisition all you’re doing is putting vulnerable people at greater risk
and once those black markets are in place you have a rather thorny problem. growing drugs is not mainly an agricultural skill, it is primarily a networkiig skill. a grower or dealer won’t go straight because you’ve made the thing they do legal. they’ll pivot to something else you’ve made illegal. but the best way to erode the black market isn’t to target the cartel, it’s to target the street level dork engaging in dangerous behavior because they’re desperate.
the less desperation there is in the ecosystem, the less criminal behavior there will be
the best solution if you want to reduce light and hard drug usage is to increase quality of life via parks, libraries, and education. to quote my all time favorite poster, @DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com , “seriously!”
it seems counter intuitive that you should address drugs through not the drugs, but when you’re dealing with drugs you have to take into consideration that the reason people use them is to address a chemical imbalance in their brain. drugs are a short term fix to a long term problem for the user. if you’re going to address the long term problems with drugs, you have to create long term solutions to the problems that create a need for them. if you set up short term impediments to drug acquisition all you’re doing is putting vulnerable people at greater risk
I actually have autism which is why I type like that mostly, but I DON’T always talk like that in real life.
Correct.
Education Safety nets Jobs Getting rid of the for profit prison systems And… making drugs legal
That’s how you solve the issue. Not by banning something. That just creates black markets.
and once those black markets are in place you have a rather thorny problem. growing drugs is not mainly an agricultural skill, it is primarily a networkiig skill. a grower or dealer won’t go straight because you’ve made the thing they do legal. they’ll pivot to something else you’ve made illegal. but the best way to erode the black market isn’t to target the cartel, it’s to target the street level dork engaging in dangerous behavior because they’re desperate.
the less desperation there is in the ecosystem, the less criminal behavior there will be