Drug Safe World: How Legalizing All Drugs Could Create a Healthier Future

That's exactly right, we should decriminalize and legalize every single drug. Now, I know that might sound extreme, but it's worth serious consideration, so bear with me.

So many people have their lives destroyed by drugs, whether through prison, overdose, or the trauma experienced through their children. When we change the way we look at drugs and people who use drugs, we create a safer environment for everyone.

Drugs have to be hidden. They must be bought from strangers, often with dangerous additives, in unknown places. If we remove the stigma and provide safe environments for people who use drugs, we change the lives of future generations.

If we reallocated even a portion of the ICE or military budget, just a fraction of it, we could create an entirely new reality for the working class. We could also try paying Congress minimum wage, which would free up a ton of room in the budget (and probably get the federal minimum wage raised quick). Or we could throw one billionaire into The Fire Pit a year and redistribute their wealth. Just spit-balling here. The options are endless, and the ideas so far are flawless.

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• Provide clean needles and unlaced drugs.

• Hands-on medical professionals prevent overdoses, lower the spread of disease, and help those going through withdrawal.

• Doses are regulated and limited.

• People off the street and into shelter.

• Free counseling and resources for anyone in need.

• No-cost, all-hours childcare for kids who might otherwise be left at home or stuck to watch their parents use drugs.

• People treat their underlying suffering, rather than being thrown into jail for their addiction to something that was intended to hook and destroy them.

Put an end to over-policing, arrest ICE instead, and end the "War on Drugs." There are so many people sitting in prisons for non-violent drug-related crimes, missing time with their families. Their lives just pass them by over something that didn't harm anyone else and something our government knowingly inflicted onto people.

1 in 5 incarcerated people is locked up for a drug offense | Prison Policy Initiative

If it's about rehabilitation, then prisons should help people recover from their addictions after being released. But instead, they leave them to fend for themselves.

You'd think they'd want these workers back in the workforce, right? But that's not the case. In fact, they are doing this intentionally, because they can force labor out of those incarcerated without having to pay them any sort of livable wage, while profiting exorbitant amounts, all on the taxpayers' dime.

If it's about families, why aren't we reuniting families of non-violent offenders? If it's about safety, and I am talking about non-violent offenders specifically in this piece, how does keeping them in prison make us any more or less safe?

If it was about safety, our guns would be better regulated. Our unhoused would have a safe place to sleep at night. Our children would be fed, and murderous cops would be prosecuted. The list goes on.

It's not actually about any of that. It is because private prisons make money off of each person they have locked up. They support politicians who are tough on crime because that turns more people into money makers for them and their shareholders.

It's about making sure that marginalized people aren't able to vote against the policies that specifically target them. It's about money, it's about greed, it's about power.

People will use drugs whether they're legal or not, right? Drugs are already on the streets. By providing safer ways for people to use, we can help them stay alive.

So, let's take bold steps to promote a safer, healthier future. We must prioritize the well-being of our communities over the interests of the elite.

In conclusion, the legalization and decriminalization of drugs is not a radical idea at all; it is a necessary step toward a more just society. By creating safe environments and focusing on rehabilitation, we can transform lives and communities. The time for change is now. Let's work together to make it happen.