• dubyakay@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    There’d be no need for drug dealers if drugs were decriminalized, like in other progressive Nations.

      • Affidavit@lemm.ee
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        2 days ago

        forgot they call weed drug

        Clearly you didn’t, because weed is completely unrelated to this story. You saw the word ‘drug’ and assumed it must mean ‘marijuana’.

        Edit: You know what, this response was pretty dickish. Sorry. Ignore the above.

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          Thanks appreciate your edit, i was speaking in general that they can call someone selling weed as drug dealer and kick them out of the country. So the word drug dealer in the US by itself doesn’t mean the person is gang member or horrible person.

          Regardless thanks again for the edit! Have a good day…

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      3 days ago

      like in other progressive Nations.

      Show me a progressive nation that has decriminalized Fentanyl (which is what the woman was caught for last time).

      If we’re talking weed, I 100% agree - that should be decriminalized everywhere.

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        3 days ago

        I would argue that they’re smuggling in fentanyl precisely because the less dangerous drugs are also illegal, so there’s no oversight in making sure they’re not laced with the cheaper fentanyl.

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      3 days ago

      Yeah lemme go to my local fentanyl shop. Because she trafficked fentanyl.

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          3 days ago

          I’m all for drug legalization. It’s not legal, and trying to somehow justify someone coming to America to traffic in fentanyl, which is a straight up killer, is incredibly disingenuous. And Oregon decriminalized drugs and had to walk it back because it became a problem.

          Like I said, I’m in favor of it, but that’s not what we are dealing with. Someone who crosses a border to sell a deadly drug isn’t out here to help people. And if some American rolls into Portugal and starts selling fentanyl, I can assure you it ends up in that person getting removed from Portugal.

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            3 days ago

            Fentanyl is a part of the category ‘all drugs’. Some places like Uruguay have literally ZERO penalties for drug use recreationally, and they haven’t defined limits on the amount for personal use on anything but Marijuana (40g) so the judge would have to decide if the woman was carrying a huge amount or if there was a possibility it was personal use. https://www.tni.org/en/publication/about-drug-law-reform-in-uruguay

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              That’s great. I’m glad and I would love for it to be the case here. Legalization can, at the very least, open up the doors to the glories of capitalism as far as industries to help people with drug addiction, and presumably we’d get the benefits of good clean drugs and all that.

              None of that has to do with smuggling fentanyl into a foreign country and your (deserved) deportation afterwards. Also has nothing to do with an administration who thinks it’s funny to post an AI generated image satirizing it. Both of those things are no-nos, in my uneducated opinion.