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Fumesucker

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9. How is decriminalizing going to help?

Reply to longship (Reply #6)

Fri May 25, 2012, 01:00 PM

May 2012

Only out and out legalization with regulation, just like alcohol and tobacco, is going to end the illegal distribution chain for "drugs".

Decriminalizing does nothing to end the black market and the black market is where the majority of our problems come from.

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What Can We Do About Incarceration Rates? [View all] qwlauren35 May 2012 OP

Relentlessly posting statistics somewhere might help. randome May 2012 #1

You can start with the Bureau of Justice Statistics Comrade Grumpy May 2012 #4

Make incarnation unprofitable. nt rrneck May 2012 #2

Incarnation? Carnations? Re-incarnation? Sorry, I know what you meant, I just couldn't resist! randome May 2012 #3

What? This isn't the religion forum? rrneck May 2012 #5

Two simple steps longship May 2012 #6

How is decriminalizing going to help? Fumesucker May 2012 #9

Sorry. I understood that if something is not criminal, it would be legal. longship May 2012 #10

The language is really slippery on this.. Fumesucker May 2012 #13

Alcohol wasn't really decriminalized then, was it? longship May 2012 #14

If people mean "legalize" then why do they not use that term? Fumesucker May 2012 #16

Touché longship May 2012 #18

Decriminalizing individual drug offenses MineralMan May 2012 #7

Decriminalize most drugs 4th law of robotics May 2012 #8

Slash State "correctional" budgets. ProgressiveEconomist May 2012 #11

Capacity... actually they can. qwlauren35 May 2012 #15

'As long as states have the money'--So SLASH the money ProgressiveEconomist May 2012 #17

I'll Buy That qwlauren35 May 2012 #19

Stop voting for politicians. Egalitarian Thug May 2012 #12

Publicize, organize. HiPointDem May 2012 #20

Pull the plug on the privatized prison/industrial complex hifiguy May 2012 #21