That may be true, but isn't the fact that you get such people selling drugs a result of drugs being illegal in the first place.
Also, out of curiosity, what do you mean by "out to be IN THE MAIN decriminalized". This suggests that you think there are some exceptions. If so, can you tell me what they might be? Thomas
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A much more interesting proposition is not just lifting the criminal penalties on street drugs, but combining that with removing the prescription requirement on all drugs.
You would still go to a doctor to find out what was wrong with you, if anything, and still get a prescription for its therapeutic regime. But you wouldn't need permission to score narcotics, speed, downers or psychedelics if you wanted them.
It would be a very interesting experiment to see what would happened. After the first few hundred thousand dead eager beavers I would imagine the figures would level off... And for those who get themselves addicted to whatever, well dicriminalizing drugs, makes it a whole lot safer to get off drugs. I would guess dicriminalizing drugs would have just about zero effect on rehab programs and it might actually increase their effectiveness. The problem with drugs is not their availability. More than Fifty years of insanely vicious laws and social policies have had zero impact.
Another interesting experiment would be the elimination of all sex laws, dicriminalizing whole swaths conduct that is mostly unenforceable anyway. As for rape and similar sorts of gross assaults, they are after all still assaults and you could modify existing assault penalties to reflect various sexually related assaults.
Let's see, as long as I am speculating about social justice, how about shit canning the entire family law system? Most of it is a gross injustice to men as fathers. Rent your kids---kiss my ass. Me and every one of my married and divorced men friends are held hostage to the whim of their wives or ex-wives by the fucking family law system.
In general I say, regulate the board room, not the bathroom or the bedroom.
As for Justin's nervousness, what is there to say? By sixteen you should be able to trust your kid's judgment. The truth is, you probably do. I did. I never thought twice about what my kid was up to after he was about eleven or twelve. I suspect I would have trusted a daughter even more. I considered my kid's ability to judge situations like exercise, the more he did it, the better he got at it.
Chuck Grimes