[jiveturkey42]

Because for every functional self-dosing career professional, there's 10 self-dosing tent dwellers living in squalor in every major US city

[marssaxman]

You have that ratio backwards, and it's still an exaggeration.

[jiveturkey42]

I didn’t realize the ratio was so high but I guess it would explain why the white collar sector doesn’t accomplish anything anymore

[omginternets]

I certainly agree that the failure modes of addiction, homelessness and toxicity are worth avoiding.

[empyrrhicist]

Umm... that's much more likely to be opiates and meth, and the criminalization hasn't especially helped with those either.

Not to mention, the language you use is really cruel.

[jiveturkey42]

Likewise I think non-enforcement of drug laws tacitly permitting people to self-destruct in the streets is really cruel

[empyrrhicist]

The question isn't about whether it's good to just let people self destruct, its whether criminalization helps. Not every problem is a police problem.