Belgium will not legalize drugs, says prime minister

by Boomtown_Rat

7 comments
  1. “Using drugs is a crime.” … … Spoken like a true liberal.

    Hard drugs should remain illegal, but soft drugs like cannabis and mushrooms should become legal. I don’t get how anyone calling themselves a liberal could disagree.

  2. Obviously something like heroin or cocaine shouldn’t be legal, but wouldn’t weed be useful to legalise in medical contexts?

  3. >However, some experts argue that the violence surrounding the drug trade stems from its illegality, with governments effectively placing a high-demand, zero-regulation market in criminal hands.

    Yup, they create a market. “They” being the politicians who keep it banned. They are the creators of the very market they’re railing against.

    Scared parents are reliable voters.

  4. Actually if we let the cannabis status illegal only mafias and black market would earn from it without paying any taxes and with cut products that could harm more users and loudly affect our social security.

    I know cocaine and other hard drugs are a big problem but also most of mafia’s financial income. But according to Europol, in the US the mafia’s turnover is 38%.

    So regulating cannabis would cut even at last a third of mafia’s revenues while collecting taxes and well informing users about drugs harm instead of destroying their lives because they smoke weed.

    When I look at cannabis enthusiasts on subreddit r/trees I find better people than legal alcoholics touching girls, pisseren and also vomit everyone.

    Cannabis and shrooms exists whatever you want or not and things got worse since we made them totally illegal, now we face the consequences we wouldn’t even have if they were not set illegal, we wouldn’t even care but this is an historical fact: prohibition of drugs brings the cult of their use and the call for gains for mafias… Because the more the judiciairy risk is high and the more is the reward…

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