War against drugs having it’s effects 50 years later

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1. Quickie’s idea is retarded.

   Let’s takes crimes that don’t get prosecuted and have offenders pay a fine in order to not get prosecuted.

   This will cause more work for the police and it won’t change anything for the parketten.

   Also: drugs are not a victimless crime.

2. > It’s such a blatant cash grab.

   Here’s a fucking wild idea: Don’t carry illegal drugs on you.

3. Legalize drugs, just control it (to ensure that they are as “safe” as can be) and offer free treatment for those who want to stop using drugs. This takes it out of the criminal world as there simply is less money to be made, bonus point, it also gives more money for less cost to the government through taxation. However, the best thing is that it treats drug users as victims instead of criminals.

   Concrete example; I remember when studying in Amsterdam, we went to a party with some students, one student bought some XTC, went outside, got the quality tested by a government ran mobile lab (as she didn’t know this dealer) and all of that was completely normal.

4. The war on drugs is a total joke and a waste of tax money

5. >It’s pretty upsetting to see us in society value drugs worse then deadly weapons.

   We dont, we dont even have an actual “war on drugs” as that is known in the US.

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   >Even the pentalties for drugs are random af. 20 exctacy pills will at
   most contain around 6 grams total. Yet the price is the same as caught
   with 6-10 g of coke. It’s such a blatant cash grab.

   ?doesnt really make sense, unless you mean that the coke should be a lot higher .

6. I gather that there’s a movement to focus on “harm reduction” (which would include mandatory administration in local centres with medical and social follow-up, as well as rehabilitation) rather than penalization. In general, I absolutely believe that, if we can show improvements on major endpoints (safety, crime, number of users, overdoses, health risks, health expenditure, etc…) by any other policy, we should pursue it.

   It’s an interesting thought exercise: if there were abundant, hard evidence that freely selling heroin in a pharmacy would improve all health, economic and crime outcomes, would we follow the evidence, or be “principled and moral”? The thing is, I think the scientific evidence is currently not nearly sufficient to warrant that kind of approach.

   Alcohol being this widely accepted, while weed isn’t, is a genuine inconsistency IMHO. It’s just habit rather than science, even accounting for all marijuana’s health risks. As for other classes of drugs, I tried drugs like XTC and cocaine during medical studies, and I wouldn’t do that so lightly anymore. These are substances with serious potential harmful effects.

7. If you sell 10grams of coke at 50/g. That’s 500 euro’s. Fine is only 300 euro.

   It’s weird that the fine isn´t even worth the goods. This is pretty much legalisation of drugs with taxation from time to time.

   Just legalise the stuff, so we can get some quality control…

8. “I loved when Bush came out and said, “We are losing the war against drugs.” You know what that implies? There’s a war being fought, and the people on drugs are winning it.” – Bill Hicks

9. > It’s pretty upsetting to see us in society value drugs worse then deadly weapons.

   so in Belgium it’s easier to lay your hands on weapons than on drugs?

   wut?

10. Making drugs legal won’t stop the import of massive amounts of drugs in Belgium and the money surrounding it dissapear. And that’s the real drug problem.

11. I really hope our german homies fully legalize recreational weed. That should be enough to finally spark the debate in belgium on a political level.

12. We should not normalise drug use

13. Also, the person who made this graphic should really take a course.