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Every and all narcotic must be made illegal with choice of treatment and recovery for 6 months or 12 months imprisonment.
If an addict choices treatment and recovery, they will need a lot of close personal relationships because people make life worth living, so it would help them to build friendships with people who have never had a substance issue. I hope people are open to building a connection with someone going through recovery, but only if the person stays clean.
We tried that. It didn't work. Other countries tried that. It also didn't work.
Your desire for things to be black and white doesn't make your idea functionally in reality.
Countries like Singapore where there’s death penalty for drug possession/trafficking — whether we agree with it or not is secondary here, just highlighting purely from a whether or not it is working point of view — seems to be working.
I’m not condoning the death penalty, far from it; but I’m inclined to think actual enforcement (instead of catch and release that we have now), with support programs to get people off the stuff, will steer the needle towards better direction, as opposed to decriminalizing it and let people who needs help continue to abuse illicit drugs the way they want, where they want, when they want.
brings up singapore as a positive example but then talks about wanting a rehabilitative system instead...