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Penal systems I don’t know much about, so I will agree by default on those. I’m mostly focused on the pipeline from home to prisons rather than the prisons themselves
I’m almost at the point of agreeing on de-criminalizing drug use, because something needs to be done. Having worked in the mental health field for 15 years and so much of this field is trying to patch up the problems people create with rampant hard drug use
We as a country need to pick a street, and there’s two wildly different ways to go. Either start actually cracking down on drug use such as confiscating people’s drugs, searching them and their vehicles for drugs, and using a forced rehab (better than jail but jail if they refuse rehab) penalty IF they commit other crimes in addition to their drug use such as violence or theft..,
Or….
Go the complete other direction and do an even more extreme form of what many EU countries do. De-criminalize drugs and have the gov’t create dosing stations where they provide 100% pure free versions of drugs, so long as the people use them while being monitored at these facilities. This is sort of a fatalist approach because everyone with a drug addiction is probably fucked into a slow suicide with this setup, but what it would also do is nearly completely destroy gangs and cartels
Gangs and cartels cannot be considered terrorists because they have no ideology, which is almost always religious or political. Gangs and cartel’s only ideology is profit. With free 100% pure gov’t supplied drugs available, there would be zero need to get them from gangs. Why pay money for a worse product? Instantly gangs and cartels would dissolve. They’d still exist to run guns, prostitution, and extortion, but their drug profits would evaporate
I’m still leaning towards option 1 though. Get the drugs out of their hands via confiscation and forced rehab
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