[oofnik]

> Inside, a 47-year-old man struggled to mix ashy heroin with fragments of crystal crack, crushing both into a souped-up speedball. Observed by a nurse, he took the needle and jabbed it into a vein in his neck. “The veins on his hands have all dried up,” the nurse said matter-of-factly.

I don't really understand how anybody sensible can read a sentence like that and think to themselves, "yes, this is fine."

If individual bodily autonomy is the god you have chosen to worship above all other paths painstakingly eked out over the ages through much trial and error toward human flourishing, I guess it makes sense, but for those of us who ascribe to more, dare I say, traditional ideas about what constitutes good human life, the thinking that underlies the kinds of policies which lead to the outcomes detailed in this article seem utterly abhorrent.

It's astonishing how much human misery and suffering some people are willing to put up with and justify when wearing ideological blinders.

[nvy]

The problem is that if drugs are not decriminalized, that guy's probably in jail or was extrajudicially executed by the police.

It's not like we'd be doing him a service by charging him with a felony.

[crummy]

Does banning drugs prevent these kind of scenarios?