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Originally Posted by DragonChi
How would you get people off the streets and off drugs?
More importantly, how to get this demographic to contribute to Canada?
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You can't. All you can do is give them opportunity.
The rest is up to them.
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Originally Posted by underscore
Is that somehow prevented by keeping it illegal? With all the information people have available to them these days, if that's what they really want to do, then fuck it, let them. And then make it so that it has as little an impact on everyone else as possible.
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Maybe that guy trying it for the first time would have made a different choice had there not been a safe, supervised place, free of judgment, for him to do it.
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Originally Posted by underscore
That's not at all what I'm saying, don't jump to the "but if we let someone do X, then next we'll allow Y" so quickly. Then you end up lumped with the nutters that thing gay marriage guarantees the legalization of pedophilia.
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And that's not at all what I'm saying.
I think we'll just have to agree to disagree.
We'll circle back in another fifteen years. See how that harm reduction strategy is working out for the dtes then.
Maybe instead of lowering the speed limit to 30k through Hastings so addicts wandering into traffic aren't hit, we can really fix it by just diverting traffic completely.
Better yet, let's just put them all in a big building and give them all the drugs they want. Paid for by our taxes. That way we all get to pat ourselves on the back for doing the humane thing.