Duncan, while I understand the distinctions you draw, all the things I support that are libertarian are the ones you don't. But I think your basic assumption is that people are actually RESTRAINED by personal and religious morality, while I think that people who are healthy make good choices for themselves without external strictures controlling them.
Any part of decriminalizing drugs would, in my opinion at least, require them being obtained legally from a doctor's office or an injection clinic. I do agree that there was some amnesia about cocaine, but it was more along the lines of forgetting what happened historically in America because of it.
Drugs equals failure and despair, whether they are medically administered, or bought on the street. This is not a program to reform people, but rather just a realistic take on the fact that some people will always be addicts. Certainly, it is better to give them pure drugs with regulated dosing than have them steal and kill and sell their bodies for it, and still risk accidental overdose and death, yes? |
