How drug legalization reduces addiction and deaths (in under two minutes!) UPDATED TITLE

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Hello! My name is Samson Racioppi, and I am going to tell you in two minutes why all drugs including heroin, meth, and cocaine, should be legalized.

Our current system creates a stigma that discourages addicts from seeking help. Legalization encourages innovative ideas and alternative methods for dealing with the drug issue and shifts focus away from the criminal justice system into more of what it truly is: a health epidemic.

If we just changed our mindset (and our laws) community clinics could open where people suffering from addiction can find cheap access to pharmaceutical grade drugs with guaranteed potency in a safe environment. This immediately reduces overdose deaths.

Plus, in these clinics, I envision access to life-saving measures, for example narcan, further reducing over-dose deaths.

As these drugs would be supplied legally, pharmaceutical companies who have access to greater resources like labs and legitimate supply lines, it would likely drive down the costs significantly. Cartels would be unable to compete with the pharmaceutical companies, which would have a significant impact in places where the drug war is fought militarily, like Latin America.

As long as there is demand for something, there will be someone willing to supply it. Our current failed policy focuses on supply, doing little to curb demand. At these clinics, when addicts are ready to come clean off the drugs, counselors and other resources could be available to assist.

All this under one roof, in clinics located where people are being affected the hardest.

We barely scratched the surface. Reducing burden on police, courts, and jails. Allowing non-violent drug offenders the ability to get student loans. Etc. Etc.

My name is Samson Racioppi, and I just told you in two minutes why all drugs should be legalized. Thank you for watching!

Last Edited by ScoutsOUT on 02/27/2017 11:13 PM

Wow what am I looking at?? Thanks for the laugh, I needed it.

Just posted this on facebook and someone just jumped all over my shit for it, saying I'm advocating for the pharmaceutical industry to pump more drugs into our economy.

Not at all.

I hate the way we over-prescribe drugs in our country, but in this one case they really could be a positive thing. Sucks people are so close-minded.

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Milton Friedman, Phd in Economics, won the Nobel Prize for his theory IN economics, talks about why all drugs should be legalized.

Funniest part is at the end where they ask "where do YOU draw the line?"

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If recreational drugs were held to the same standards that the fda holds pharmaceutical drugs they would all be deemed safe and beneficial.

Neat!

but, but what about evil granny

Thread: Mass. National Guard Raids 81 YO Woman For Single Pot Plant.

He look a moran who promote his own stuff.

Your video explains exactly why they will never legalize so many drugs... the demand is in place and mucho money is being made. They'll never want to go with your plan because it disrupts their power and money gains.

Good luck though. Treating people and working toward lowering demand would be best for society. (Just not best for their business.) Cheers.

I promote other's stuff too. Every time you open our mouth or use this forum you're promoting your opinion on something. Unless you're a paid shill, then you're promoting someone else's opinion

Last Edited by ScoutsOUT on 02/28/2017 10:58 AM

I agree with everything that you say. There are a couple of other thoughts though.

The war on "drugs", like most other wars on things, or wars on behavior, is a war on joy. It criminalizes natural human behavior that does least harm to others. Prostitution is the same, and in our country we don't even have the concept of a "professional girlfriend", which is a paid life companion, not to be confused with traditional gf or wife.

The other MAIN reason for free access to all drugs legally: We are deprived of the ability to learn about them, and even medical research is prohibitive in cost and time. Having legal access to all drugs without a physician's script will let people choose effective cures/treatments for their own ailments. Only an individual can sense effects from the inside, and that applies especially to anything "mind-altering". A perfect example is the treatment of aspergers/autism/ASD using the entheogens, using MDMA and similar compounds. Some compounds are safer than others, and those are not available due to legal restrictions. No drug of this class is available legally even with a prescription.

Good luck packaging all this into two minutes of coherent sound bites.

Updated the video, removed cropping, and changed the title..

Unfortunately had to create a new link :/

Thanks to Flameworker for thumbing up the old video!! Anyone is welcome to friend me on FB, non-discriminatory.

I was asked to adhere to a strict two minute limit.. I'll be making more of these videos in the future.. Maybe keep them under 5 minutes???