• GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    I love this kind of stuff. “We’ve been doing what one of the most powerful and wealthy countries has been trying to do for decades without success, and we just can’t afford it any more. Alright, let’s dust off that report from the experts we received when this all started and see if that can help…”

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      4 months ago

      As far as I remember, yeah, that’s essentially what happened. At first, the government and the police saw drug addicts as criminals in the eyes of the law, and tried to go after them, which is, as far as I know, what the US and a lot of other countries do.