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29 days agoit’s hard to argue that we’re being punitive by not dedicating a safe space wherein to do drugs
I would argue that this is very much in line with the punitive approach of criminalisation, it comes from the same feelings of revulsion and delusions of moral superiority as criminalisation. It’s simply another form of punishment: unnecessary, forced suffering.
I’d say that’s arguable but even so, your statement wasn’t geared that way. You said “users” without qualification, not “problematic users”. I’m simply pointing out that there’s a distinction between the two and one should not throw the baby out with the bathwater by assuming that all drug users are problematic drug users and then creating laws based on that very flawed assumption.
Some are. Some are decent and are helping people out because the government has chosen to put the multi-billion dollar industry into the hands of criminal gangs (the parasitical entities). Again, don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. When society eventually pulls its head out of its ass and legalises and regulates drugs, I’ll bet a large proportion of the people staffing the specialist pharmacies will be those same drug dealers doing what they always did, just in a legalised context: not only supplying but offering advice and guidance to keep people safe.