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- Feb 2016
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As a former police accountability advocate, I'm reminded that plenty has changed since ending marijuana prohibition in our state. Police are now forced to change their ways and simply focus on whether or not there is imminent public safety harm due to marijuana use.
Could the public's safety be at risk though? If you are driving high, or operating machinery while under the influence of cannabis you could hurt other people. Being high at any place besides your free time where you are safe can be dangerous to the public.
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The same condition holds for hard drugs. Media accounts focus on users who experience bad outcomes, since these are dramatic or newsworthy. Yet millions risk arrest, elevated prices, impurities, and the vagaries of black markets to purchase these goods, suggesting people do derive benefits from use.
I don't think that people are receiving benefits from these drugs I think that they are addicted and our willing to risk their quality of life for it because they feel like they can't live without it.
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In a society that legalizes drugs, users face only the negatives of use.
I think that the negatives of using hard drugs is enough for people to realize that legalizing all drugs would turn out to be a very reckless society.
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