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        I mean if you want to get specific what I really want is to remind police that doing drugs is illegal and they should focus on busting those people…instead of kids having fun on scooters

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            In the US it’s so they can give black people felonies for being black so they can’t vote.

            That’s literally what started the war on drugs. Well, blacks and hippies.

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              This is also why alcohol, which is a way more harmful drug to others than all of the illegal drugs[1], is legal.

              [1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21036393/

              Findings: MCDA modelling showed that heroin, crack cocaine, and metamfetamine were the most harmful drugs to individuals (part scores 34, 37, and 32, respectively), whereas alcohol, heroin, and crack cocaine were the most harmful to others (46, 21, and 17, respectively). Overall, alcohol was the most harmful drug (overall harm score 72), with heroin (55) and crack cocaine (54) in second and third places.

        • Takapapatapaka@tarte.nuage-libre.fr
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          riding scooter at 12 seems to be illegal too in vancouver, and people have fun on drugs too, so seems to me both things are pretty much interchangeable in your argument

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          Busting drug addicts will do ZERO to help the drug and crime problems. Even law enforcers will tell you that.

          Those problems are so much more complex, and require fundamental reforms in social policies, mental healthcare, education, youth programmes, city planning etc. And then there’s the issue of dealing with the gangs, smugglers and foreign organized syndicates bringing the stuff into the country.

          Kids driving recklessly on scooters (which are often modified) are:

          A) A danger to themselves

          B) A danger to pedestrians they could crash into

          C) A serious danger to cars that swerve to avoid them when they go out on the main road.

    • Lumelore (She/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Putting someone in timeout maybe works for three year olds but it doesn’t work for adults even if you hold them there 1000 times longer. Restitution and rehabilitation is a significantly more effective solution and results in much lower recidivism. Only reason to lock someone in a box is if they present a significant danger to the public, and that’s not to punish them, but to protect others.

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        The temporary decriminalization of doing drugs in British Columbia expired in January 2026

        So doing illicit drugs like crack or fentanyl on the streets is currently illegal again.