Archibald: Alabama says it’s tough on drug crime. It just perpetuates it.
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It's ineffective, expensive, inhumane and unfair.

Alabama suffers crime because of drugs, it punishes people because of drugs, it builds billion dollar prisons and signs billion dollar prison healthcare deals because its justice system is overrun by the consequences of drugs. It forces people to spend lifetimes in prison because of drugs, it uses the presence of drugs as an excuse to put addicts back inside, and if it put a fraction of the effort into rehabilitation it would save more people, more money and more families.

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  • markr@lemmy.world
    14·
    9 months ago

    Addiction might go down, it might go up, but crime will definitely go down, and accidental overdose deaths will basically be eliminated.

    • shortwavesurfer@monero.townEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      Addiction should go down since legalizing the drugs would make room for less potent forms of the drugs. So something like cocaine could be replaced with coca leaf tea, etc. It doesn’t completely eliminate it, but it ought to bring it way down.

      • markr@lemmy.world
        3·
        9 months ago

        I don’t disagree, it ‘ought to’, but my point is simply that even if it doesn’t the benefits of legalization to both the addicted community and society in general are more than enough to justify legalization.