Category Archive 'The Noose and the Lash'

06 Mar 2023

Would You Rather Singapore or Chicago?

, ,

Easy answer.

One demurral: Personally, I think Drug Prohibition is stupid, futile, and unconstitutional. It’s the illegality that produces the cachet that fuels demand and that creates the highly profitable black market that funds crime and cartels. Its also the illegality that causes deaths from overdoses. If heroin was still sold at your local pharmacy, packaged by Bayer, warnings about dosage limits would be clearly labeled, and nobody would be accidentally mistaking fentanyl for heroin. It is not the business of the government of Singapore or the United States to police people’s private behavior.

We used to punish murder and crime a lot more like the way Singapore does today, and back then, in the United States, crime was similarly rare.


Your are browsing
the Archives of Never Yet Melted in the 'The Noose and the Lash' Category.











Feeds
Entries (RSS)
Comments (RSS)
Feed Shark