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Same wokeness is in fiction novels. They are unreadable and all the same. I can’t read anything written since the turn of the millennium.

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This is not the pot we smoked when we were young. Making it look cool on TV and in movies is a bad idea. I’m okay with it being legal I just don’t think it should be promoted or turn into a burden on tax payers. In fact as long as you don’t mind stepping over the bodies I don’t mind if most drugs are legal. You just have to be okay with the result of making it legal. My major objection to legalizing any of it is that if it’s legalized the government should let it take its course and not make tax payers fund a bizilion help the addicts programs. No free needles, no Antabuse programs, no tax dollars taken to fix the problems associated with it. I voted against pot in Colorado because I new there would be repercussions to the state that would cost the tax payers. I know for sure a lot of money is being spent in search of illegal grows. I have two green houses that are scoped out a couple times a month by government helicopters. They fly by at night mostly right over my two greenhouses to check for heating.

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Spending just a fraction of what we spend on enforcement on treatment programs is a smart thing, given the realities of not doing so. Better to treat and try to divert addicts than to let them continue to overdose or otherwise burden the taxpayers. An absolutist position would be more expensive..

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It’s way back since I actually looked at this but when I did it seems to me countries that did go full legalization on recreational drugs saw it work itself out in few years. The thing with addiction is an addict has to want to quit. Recycling the same addict through a government program doesn’t work now. Suppling needles and alternative drugs is counter productive. An absolutist approach puts the responsibility on the addict to self rescue and there are plenty of organizations out there that are willing to help those that really want help. I’m fresh out of compassion.

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The closest to full legalization is Portugal, which decriminalized small quantities, with some good success in reduced usage, last I checked. But, even that doesn't resolve the black market incentives, so the problems persist.

The needle programs are a stunt, as are most of the rest. A friend who is a paramedic has a lot to say about the current diversion programs, none of it good.

We need as big a mind shift on treatment as we need on prohibition.

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"Speaking truth to power" is the most cringiest of phrases. Not only do I not know what it means since the wording is not clear, but it just seems so gratuitous as to be meaningless.

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