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The point of decriminalizing drugs is that the government shouldn't be able to tell people what substances they consume. If that also happens to lead to various things like increased vagrancy and violence, well, we already have fricking laws against all those things.
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Lmao, the point of decriminalizing drugs is to stop punishing the vagrant and violent. They always go hand in hand.
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That's just because the policy happens to be driven by progressivecels rather than by classical liberalchads.
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Classical liberalism is now an r-slured take. Only the most stuck in the mud "conservatives" still believe in it.
Get with the program. See Vox Day for an easy intro into what everyone else is moving to
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White Zimbabwe?
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I don't think you can claim a policy is a failure if its implemented in a a dumb way, take the netherlands
They decriminalized owning, selling and using drugs (good policy), but did not decriminalize producing (bad policy), as a result only criminal organizations could produce drugs to sell to stores and in effect they managed to import/create domestic drug cartels where none existed before since legitimate insitutions were not allowed to produce drugs
This isn't a result of the first policy in isolation, but rather result of implementing it in an rslurred manner
Same goes for decriminalizing drug use without enforcing laws already on the books related to theft and violence
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Or Common Good Constitutionalism, which basically believes hermeneutics of judicial originalism won't let us create a Catholic theocracy, so it sucks and its time to replace it.
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That's why I've moved from legalization to benevolent police statism. The perfect system is one where everything is illegal, but the cops only use it as an excuse to stop annoying people.
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Yes but you still need to arrest the vagrants
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The point is that it makes more sense to punish the illegal distributor than the consumer as per some legal theory.
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