Haha yup that’s happens often for sure

Honestly, I’m all on board for legalization.

Exactly not a lot of people understand the system is corrupt, you’re meant to stay stuck in that vicious cycle

@@rossjobe3787 I’m pretty sure the point is that we’re told the system is supposed to cut down on drug crimes but their anecdote is about how it actually does the opposite. It’s a bad system if getting caught can lead you to commit more crime. Especially when the thing you get caught for is basically harmless.

@@rossjobe3787 but the thing is we know that this way we currently do things doesn’t really stop people from making these decisions and it doesn’t seem to prevent repeat offenses. In fact it often seems to lead to more of them. Personal accountability isn’t what’s in question here. It’s about how we spend absurd amounts of money to “get drugs off the street” despite the fact that all we’re doing is making the situation worse. You’re stating the obvious point that breaking laws has consequences but that doesn’t refute anything that’s being said here. The system isn’t bad because people generally face consequences for breaking the law and getting caught. It’s bad because it doesn’t do what it’s supposed to do.

i mean most cop are just salary man like you and me, they do their "job" w/o questioning it, go home and pay their rent. but some, like this one, is passionate about his work. he will bring change.

The Wire is one of the best shows ever syndicated. Created by a former homicide detective and a police reporter, it examines how destructive the war on drugs is in depth.

They learned nothing from their *_two_* opium wars, sadly.

Education and legalisation is the only way

He forgot to mention the actual number of his people running the worlds drugs.

Okay. So this guy used to blow me and other thugs in the back alley. We all got arrested after trusting him with the qumm-bag. Baldie literally gulped it in front of us, then we were raided.

@@tibettenballs4962 wot

@@tibettenballs4962 probably "under covers" with him a few times

@@tibettenballs4962 great wording on that second sentence

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Private prisons don’t exist in the US.

Sounds like military industrial complex, too.

@Ryan Alex as I think most people do if they look at the evidence (Aka the decades of history, the countries that decriminalize like portugal vs ones that make it harder like Sweden)

@Ryan Alex the gangs are doing the war on each other

@@DanishCamp Yes, the state trying to crush the drug market is pointless when this system of criminal action is unsustainable. The clashes would continue to weaken each gang while the demand goes to the proposed legal market.

@@SpeakerWiggin49 and how would it be any different if it was legal?

@@DanishCamp Eventually the gang activity would die out. That is if investment of those tax dollars addresses the addiction issue. Unfortunately even in places with legal weed the dealers are making bank just by selling cheaper crap.

You would think if anyone understood what the true purpose of any drug war is, it would be a royal subject of the empire which once waged a war with China over the right to sell opium from the east India company in China.

Sorry. Waged *_TWO_* wars over the right to sell opium.

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I agree - he is an actual hero. But I don't know about it being a futile effort. The world is starting to make progress in understanding the nature of drug harm, and realising it's the War On Drugs that's truly futile. Portugal has decriminalised illicit use of drugs..

@@kwokalisaur The war on drugs was never a futile attempt - the ones who pushed to most for it got exactly what they wanted: more budget allocated to national security and security/military materielle. The positive way of thinking about this is that, at least, we're all quite a bit more aware of how some parts of most governments operate and how we all need to re-evaluate our collective stance on drugs, drug abuse and drug consumers/abusers. Portugal, amongst others such as the Netherlands, has achieved enormous success in minimizing the fallout of their opiod epidemic. A lot more needs to be done, however. Sex workers were mentioned in the video: they are the most fragile and vulnerable category out there that is also most at risk of being forcibly turned into a drug abuser. They are also one of the most likely categories to not seek assistance from friends, family and social workers. A lot more needs to be done to get people like sex workers back into the "light" (not intended in a religious sense) and reassured that they, too, deserve to be treated as human beings, to be respected and to be given assistance. So long as groups of people are forced to remain so vulnerable, we will never be able to get out of this mess.

Hardcore drugs like heroin and meth should remain criminal. They ruin lives merely by use and hollow out families and, by extension, societies. I'm completely for legalization of marijuana, shrooms, LSD, etc., but heroin and meth and similar drugs have no place to be legal to possess, manufacture, or use.

Organized street crime would lower since gangs cant compete against pharm and get ran off cause they cant compete

@@seananderson5334 I'm afraid that in my opinion as far as the uk goes the government has 2 bad options. Either leave things as they are or get involved. 20% of heroin users use the vast majority of the heroin available. I can only speak for myself but it wasn't my intention to turn out how I did. The lifestyle is so destructive. All that I do know is that what we have now isn't working

I think the problem is if this source of income is taken away from criminals what will they turn to?they won't just call it a day.

The solution’s not to “get rid of gangs,” because someone fills the vacuum. The way we get rid of them by proxy is by diverging from austerity measures and focus on rehabilitating criminals rather than punishing them, so they can leave prison with a stable and legal place in society

185 likes no comments dam guys.

Not being a hater. But I think he's just a scholar on the subject so no bad memories. Lol

@@christianpalmer5471 he literally said he was undercover for some time. Dealing with murderers..

@Money Man have you ever been to Kensington in Philadelphia? Really nice neighbors (no sarcasm -- they were)... But oh my was that a potentially life-threatening couple of months I lived there. My nextdoor neighbor was a 93 year old great-grandmother who sold crack and fentanyl from her stoop because her "useless children and grandchildren ain't paying the damn bills". And there were multiple stabbings on her stoop in the 7 months I lived there, most in broad daylight. This town looks like a playground compared to Kensington.

@@christianpalmer5471 he was undercover in multiple gangs for years of his life. He has plenty of bad memories. Though I imagine you'll figure that out as you watch the video.

The whole point of the video is that demand will never go away.

@@bastiboyza you need to create a world where more people have quality lives where productive work is more rewarding than any high. good luck.

@@bastiboyza Rehab doesnt address demand from most users, it addresses demand of habitual addicts which make up less than half of the "hard" drug using population (varies from drug to drug as well, obviously).

@@JinKee I don't need your luck

@@lubb213 mandatory rehab

The Wire is great. This man is a hero, drug abuse is a medical issue.

Spot on.

Police, politicians and local authorities are easily bought and paid for.

Unfortunately they have to much to gain from keeping it going jobs in prisons/police/parole officers/judges/lawyers/social workers/doctors etc etc as well as funding there private ventures, as an ex addict it makes me sick the war has done nothing for the people afflicted by addiction and drug use is always on the rise as are drug deaths

You have to keep in mind the way that the US sanctions countries that don't make laws that they want, which was one (is?) of the hurdles for marijuana legalization outside of the US, particularly in Canada and Mexico. It took many states to do it first before other countries were even comfortable to legalize or decriminalize it.

@Ollie Haynes if you don't think it is affected by trade issues you're kidding yourself

Good recovery man

Respects for having overcomed that

That’s part of step 1 brotha. It might be hard but If u wanna be clean for the rest of your life u gotta work the 12 steps

and here i am 23 years old, lost a job, broke up with girlfriend and lowkey depressed wondering which drug to start using to help me go trought it..

@@charliesheen4277 do not do heroin. Don't even smoke it. That's how I, and most people started. Smoke weed if you need to use something. Whatever happens don't develop a habit from heroin, coke/crack, alcohol and meth. Those are the ones to avoid. But really, you need to look inwards and find the reason you want to do drugs and distract yourself, that's what I'm currently going through and its not simple and doesn't come easy. Doing drugs is just borrowing pleasure/happiness, and you soon rack up a big debt.

one of their better pieces they have ever done for sure.

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The drug war was never ment to be won but to create government monopolies of various kinds. Organised crime is also called government.

@@olafwilhelm4684 yeah true. Only real way i could see the drug war won is getting all the big mafias out at once. And once that logistical nightmare is done watch either. A the users sell their stashes at inflated prices and become mini drug lords. Or b the nearest mafias hear of open space and trip over each other to setup shop. Only way to end the drug wars is to cut the demand by educating people, putting them in rehab and getting them out of poverty. True ending poverty wont completely stop the drug trade but it will slow it down to a bored middle and rich class.

@@thewhitewolf58 even if they did get the mafia's and gangs out just look at pharmacies and pharmaceutical companies that caused the opioid epidemic

@@SirGrimothy lol, yeah that’s not even mentioned. The opioid addiction was completely started by the government. In Canada, the doctors were pushing OxyContin for everyone. Then in a big show, after everyone was hooked. They cut them off, heroin was there to fill the gap. And the snowball started. Fentanyl, carofentanyl . And no money for rehabilitation. See how long it takes for someone who wants to quit to receive any rehab. They want you to quit trying. I believe it is all part of a plan to get rid of population. All the while making money along the way. People will always need to get high. It’ll never ever stop.

You beat me to it. I was going to say even a cop, a British one at that has openly said the war on drugs does more harm than good. Guess SOAD had a solid point to their lyrics in prison song

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@@normanwisdom3126 Quite well, as I hope you are.

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So how is home and everything hope all is going well

I was scrolling down on comments and posts over here then all of a sudden I came across your name and I couldn’t resist such a beautiful name, haven’t they told you, you have such a beautiful and lovely name

He was getting a bit shaky at that point...

I believe the drugs heads are working on officials.

People fear violence? What a waste of energy

I wouldn’t say it’s for nothing. It sucks cause like he said, you put one away others are going to clamber to get their territory. But it still has to be done, there will always be people willing to push contraband cause they’ll see the rewards being worth the risk, and they’ll always be a market for it. But cops still have to work to put them away, cause letting them do whatever is far worse.

@@rickkcir2151, that’s why he’s arguing for the full regulation of all drug markets. You make them not contraband. He’s saying that the pressure of drug policing contributes to and exacerbates the violence.

Lol I thought I was the only one who caught that. Yeah we knew what you was trying to say big homie

Lol waiting on the re up sux

@@tonythetiger1600 "everybody's dry rn, i'll hit you up soon"

@@Peanutbutter_Funk 10 mins yh? .... lol

Thought tha same thang😂

Lol definitely

Went straight to the comments to find this 😂

Lol yeh I just saw that and left the same comment!!! Actual class

Time stamp?

@@jamessmith7577 5:20

The saying is, if you can't stop it, tax it honestly

Funny thing is, because of the dark web and unlimited access, I ended up quitting lots of the drugs I was doing. So much of the high was in the hunt, the thrill, the threat of violence. Weird

@@Anthonydu01630 Provide a link please

@@dmtripreport8542 that is very interesting. So you were/are not actually addicted to the drugs themselves, but rather to the thrill of obtaining them? It's crazy how we humans work sometimes. Do you also enjoy thrilling Activites like bungee or extreme sports and stuff?

@@Dongonzales123 yes he does

almost everyone who isnt american already knew that

Yup

@@Terranova339 Why single out American? This whole video was all about problems related to the war on drugs in other countries, but you think its just America? Did you not watch the video?

@@Terranova339 You realize this guy is from the UK right? Apparently the English and the Swedes didn't get the memo either

@@miknarf 1. because when THE drug war is kinda an american thing. and 2. because 50 years later we still havent learned anything.

Any suggestions on which book I should start with ?

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@@daebak7370 oh cool the title is that long?

@@6kang971 😂 I got lost too

I'm floored by his video performance

Agreed. I imagine he's seen some pretty dark stuff.

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@@randomrangoon5476 I wonder who he's screwed over? I wonder if they are now watching?!

Every word this guy speaks is an argument against prohibition, especially when he says that hundreds of people were involved, they smashed a huge drug operation and disrupted the supply for just 2 hours, the only way to 'smash' all gangs is to legalise it, regulate it, tax it, it's the only way to stop these guys and it's what they fear the most

Gangster rap is the biggest exploiter of the Youth. My state was safe 10-15 years ago now we have multiple murders daily we have a population of 7 million with well over 400 murders per year. The UK still can stop it by doing something instead they want to be like Chicago.. now that's sad...

@@bryanbradley6871 really what has one subject got to do with the other or were you saying that coz Robel is black

@@resolecca I didn't even notice....I'm saying that gangster rap destroyed Multiple cities in America. Where it once was safe, than gangster rap hit and hit bad

@@bryanbradley6871 I understand but that’s not even the subject of the conversation

@shadow rwind it definitely helped glamorise that lifestyle.

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@dingle Berry no

@@sima4162 please

@@bimg1915 no

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If they performed that war like literal war, ala the PI and Duterte, the results wpuld be drastically different. The way this war is played is favored in the interest of the drug king pins and suppliers.

@@happygrass5 By "drastically different results" you mean thousands of extrajudicial killings which, according to the head of drug enforcement of the Philippine police himself, have not been effective to stop the drug supply in the country?

@@happygrass5 Places like Malaysia, thailand, and Singapore are already doing that. Murdering people right in the streets over drug crimes. It doesn't help, just makes the gangs more violent because now they have nothing to lose.

@@pieterwouters6677 look I know it is not popular. And I think it brutal. But my family and friends families in different areas around the PI testify to the dramatic drop in drug use, violence, and syndicated crime in their areas. How else do we fight? Hard Drugs are the thing that will kill a person, destrpy his family and childres futures, ransack a community into regression. But what other options do we have? If the snake heads aren't removed, the people will continue to be oppressed.

@@logankimmet3465 I'm pretty sure they're not murdering people in the street in Singapore. Singapore is probably more civilised than wherever you live.

I never thought I would consider that a potential solution but... human behavior needs to change when it comes to drug use and that might just be the way to do it.

Yeah but even in california where weeed is legal theres still a big market for illegal weed because its cheaper.

@@grantlong6586 really? I lived in both colorado and Texas and the legal weed in colorado was way cheaper. Is that a California thing?

@@grantlong6586 this chick at the dispensary wanted 60 for an eighth of mids . 😂😂😂

@@charliedickson1443 It's similar to why there's a market for illegal cigarettes or booze in some places; it's primarily a way of avoiding taxes. There's still enough profit in it for some people to do it illegally.

I read this comment exactly when he did it lol

I was looking for this comment 🤣

Good catch.

Lol he didn’t slip to undercover words, just back into what his life was for so long

Interesting that "package" and "stash" and "re-up" are the words used in Northampton and in Baltimore.

with technology, you have no cover not as before anyhow. It's just a matter of time or place before you get targeted. Sometimes I wonder if they are trying to see how far you can go. Kind of sad too. That's how I see some things.

Police commit crimes every day. Do you think they are angels?

@@methree3821 bad idea right there, get ready for some pissed people.

How old are you?

Taking part in that activity does not make you a gangster, joining a gang does.

Interesting argument

Decriminalized pot didn't work.

@@lisanancollas2330 because the US didn't actually do it. Try again!

Meanwhile in nations like portugal where drug abuse is not illegal but is treated as a medical issue, addictions and drug crimes have gone down.

No prohibiting: I live in Zurich Switzerland, today the richest city in the world. My moms from here and my dad's an immigrant. In the 80s, Zurich was most addicted city in Europe. Not per capita but in sheer numbers. We had a high murder rate. 30k heroin addicts in a city of then 300k ppl. 1.2k murders. In Switzerland. Almost every dad of my friends was involved in drugs in some way, and it was pure misery in some parts of the city. A huge wealth gap, and on and on. 1.5k his deaths in 84. But then the city started giving away clean needles, removing punishment for having a small amount and for use. Only punishing the big guys. Homeless shelters for the roughly 20k homeless and drug labors where you could go and get your drugs tested for free and alternatives for dealing. The teen dealers got jobs. Their past was erased and their record if they'd get a job. Now with that we have 4050 dollar minimum wage, and all the heroin users switched to weed that is now almost legal and pastors and rabbis gave them. It works but only if the entire city is affected and not only the poor.

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Read some of the Freakonomics books by Dubner and Levitt for interesting information on how drugs gangs operate. Very interesting and highly amusing. There are even videos on YT of them giving lectures about the subject.

What’s the books name?

@@cthuluchtului650 good cop bad war

@@sparky117SAS thank you! I noticed that he talked about the book later in the video😅

@@cthuluchtului650 no worries ^_^

He's done a few podcasts with shaun atwood which are worth a watch (if you haven't already)

Everyone's paying the price. Millions of tax payer's money spend on nothing.

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Idk I don't buy the whole getting jostled around in a bathroom just tryna buy less than a half g of dope and hard lol like get real who would do that

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You can say that they can cop more cops.

Preach. The US has 4% of the world population, but we have 25% of the incarcerated people worldwide. We must be some badass mofos! Legalize, monitor purity and potential poisons added, tax it too… once something is banned by the state then the state can no longer control that thing. If you ban something that people want, they’ll find a way to get it, or someone will get creative and make a new drug and a new problem. I honestly think that crack, spice, fen, etc etc is a direct result of prohibition. No junkie wants to shoot fen, it sucks, everybody wants H, but they can’t get it so now ppl are banging straight fen with cutter instead of shoot H that has some fen in it. Fen fells like crap and it has no legs! People start shooting fen and they need a another shot in 20 mins cuz they’re already down, or even sick… after 20 mins, those same ppl would only need a fresh shot of H every 6 hours. Squares don’t understand this, and many don’t understand that they have been paying for this bullshit war on drugs. Not just with their taxes, but at this, the cost is blood! No person or family is America is untouched by this war, the taxes you pay are literally being used to imprison your family, friends and neighbors. Laws are NOT based on morality, it’s laws that makes criminals, not morality.

this guy has figured it out, i sooooo agree with him

@@swayback7375 that is exactly it. There is more incentives to import smaller amounts of a more dangerously potent product, because of the way prohibition works. This happened in the 1920’s aswell, Beer making and importing became obsolete, because it was easier to import the same amount of volumes in high proof spirits and moonshine. The government then tried to control the import and distribution of medicinal/solvent grade alcohols, so the gangsters turned to poisonous wood grain alcohols...... every move the authorities make, the crime syndicates have an alternate solution for. Its a never ending battle of attrition where each side has to become more ruthless and efficient. But the police have the handicap of rules, while the criminals don’t. Its pure madness.

Wait until we have the war on guns. Not all drug dealers are armed. However, every arms dealer is heavily armed. No way that potential future black market could be devastating.

@@brianpj5860 Import? Did you meant make? Also authorities are biggest gang, they made smaller more potent drug, fentanyl. Didn't state 'poison nondrinking alcohol' for industry or medicine, but was stolen and 30k people died?

It won't end anytime soon. The "war on drugs" much like the "war on terror" employs far too many people and is responsible for tens of billions in federal subsidies (along with seized assets) flooding all levels of law enforcement to fight wars they know can never be won and have only made the problem worse. These programs feed into a vicious cycle where money is pumped in, making the problem worse, which results in even more money being pumped in. Law enforcement and the many companies that supply them reap the profit while everyone else pays the price.

Yes - Harm reduction and treatment must be increased.

No one whos ever been involved with drugs or the trade thinks keeping it illegal is a solution; its the reason.

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Eh, I think there are two separate issues A. whether we should as a society try to restrict the consumption of certain drugs B. the most effective method to do so. I don't think it's sufficient to class addictive, harmful drugs as something people 'naturally do' and then just leave the market alone. They are essentially exploiting bugs in our hardware - biological vulnerabilities to certain substances. I want as few people as possible to have their lives destroyed by them - regardless of the method. That being said, if aggressive policing isn't effective, we shouldn't do it. If legalising and taxing would work, then we should legalise and tax. If less harsh sentencing laws would help, we should do that. Having said that, I do think though there is a flip-side to what he said - supply and demand works both ways. Currently, highly illegal drugs are expensive (in terms of price and risk), largely because of the additional hurdles an illegal industry has to deal with, higher prices tend to decrease consumption. This doesn't help many people who are already addicted - they know who to call, they will pay the price and they take the risk because they _have_ to. But for the vast bulk of people with stable, law-abiding lives, the risk, inconvenience and cost associated with buying heroin...etc. acts as a significant barrier to doing so. So you may have a situation where there is a trade-off: - Drug Legal: Increased consumption in society overall, say 50% versus 5%, but no violent criminal gangs, increased tax revenue, and more accessible harm prevention programs. -Drug Illegal: Reduced consumption overall, but you create a violent black market and those who do get addicted suffer more for it. For me, it comes down to the harms of the particular drug - what % of people who are addicted seriously suffer from it? If it's a lot, then the balance of harms shifts towards making it illegal, sure you create a Black Market and all the human misery that comes with that, but that's better than 10% of the population dying in bathtubs from overdoses and another 10% going bankrupt. If it's not that harmful or addictive, like cannabis, then the Black Market creates more suffering then the increased legal consumption would.

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He's done a couple podcasts on shaun atwoods channel. Some are cut down into segments but a couple full length ones on there

Neil Woods is also A Big Bill Hicks fan :)

Why not the opposite and greater authoritarianism, policing with extreme prejudice and capital punishment for minor infringement?

@@JR-mr1tw because its not only an immoral violation of peoples rights it also doesnt work very well.

@randomguy8196 i think she means the stigma around users which i agree with. Drugs as much as I'm for peoples right to use them I think should be presented in a factual manner depending on the drug some are very dangerous if used improperly, some aren't, most are in the middle.

@@JR-mr1tw I hope you're kidding...or eight years old and don't know any better.

Just legalize everything, cause if it's illegal, there will be a black market huh huh. Murder needs to be legal so the market can control it, legalize it all, it's an "unwinnable" war anyways.

damn I noticed that too. he had to keep reminding himself to translate as well

I’m Swedish and ashamed of our country’s ridiculous drug laws.

@@WaffleAbuser Drug laws are bad all over. too strict or soft but nothing ever fits right, It is a very hit or miss situation in my opinion.

It's a matter of time here in Sweden that more and more innocent gets killed by the gangs. A month ago a police officer got shot (and died) by a gang member. Crazy. You do not mess with the mc gangs or the big gangs in the suburbs in the biggest cities here in Sweden. People with 200£ in debt has been shot to death (rare case this one but still..).

@@howlingzombie1157 I don't really think there is a good solution. Sometimes there isn't.

And USA found this out 100 years ago, with alcohol. But they also found it grew government to combat never ending cycle

@@atmosrepair I don't know if that's accurate, as alcohol was legal prior to prohibition. The increase of the government footprint was considerable during prohibition due to the necessity to enforce the law. (Volstead act) That led to massive amounts of corruption and heavy handedness in the police forces at the time, and was at least partially the reason that we have the police as they exist today.

@@atmosrepair The criminal element of prohibition era US is very exaggerated, the benefits outweighed the negative and the only reason it was abolished was because of the tax dollars that government was missing out on

And more crime is committed to make the money for the higher cost of the drug. The 'war on drugs' has been an abject failure for decades.

@@Bhodisatvas the war on drugs is a raging success! The winners are the police state, the banks and drug dealers. All involved parties benefit. Tough habit to get out of I would say.

Which EP? I've listened to all three seasons and I don't recall this man's story.

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@@daebak7370 you left out president taft and Tupac..

@@daebak7370 I'll have what this guy's having?

@@Lockhart2000 I think it's called a "one and one", equal parts of QAnus and religious cult fantasies.

And he used that to understand them. That's empathy, people. Not saying "ohhh I'm so sorry." Empathy is an intellectual exercise as much as an emotional one.

@@bradr9581 woke is Leftist narcisissm not empathy, empathy is right wing

@@looweegee252 Empathy is neither right wing nor left wing it’s human. However in general I’d wager those with higher levels of empathy would tend more towards center/left of the political spectrum

@@joshuakielty I didn't decide what reality is, right wing freedom loving individuals are empathetic and Leftist tyrannical narcissistic people aren't. I didn't decide that to be true. It just is. Not all narcissists are Leftists but all Leftists are narcissists. Leftist means far left Nazi/Commie, it doesn't mean liberal.

@@looweegee252 I dont know why people keep saying "left nazis"; nazis could not be more right wing lmao

Same should happen with prostitution and sex work to get trafficking, pimps and people getting ripped off and sickened out of the way.

I'm not a druggy. Never have been. That's not saying that I havent done my share...I just never played with needles. Anyhow...the way I see it...everyone should be allowed to do what they want as long as they don't intentionally harm others (rape, murder, theft, violence). And I get that some drugs make good people bad and bad people worst (meth is a prime example). And I don't want them around me or on my land. But...that does not mean that they shouldn't be allowed to do what they want. It's like suicide...why is it a crime? A person should have the right to choose.

Corruption is the main obstacle.

@@davidbillyard6629 And the fact that the incumbent addictive drugs don't want to share market space. (sugar, alcohol, caffiene, pharmaceuticals)... Nicotine, however, stands to benefit greatly from regulation of 'hard-drugs'.

@@ABandCalledStoned But the rest of society has to pay for supporting them or the problems they cause. That is why other people are damaged (indirectly) by drug use and they therefore have to be given a say on what is acceptable within the society they are funding and living in.

Its true but im a user so not sure if I can answer