= Drug liberalization
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= Legalization of drugs
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<Ciro Santilli> supports full legalization of all drugs, because he feels that it would be better overall for the world to have cheaper drugs and more <drug addicts>, but way, way less <organized crime>.
These should be extremely controlled of course, with extremely high <taxes> that puts their price just below the current illegal market, and a complete ban on any positive <advertising>.
Ciro believes that maybe the <government> could even go as far as giving free drugs to <drug addicts> so they don't have to <theft>[rob] to get a fix.
This is notably considering that drug-led organized crime completely dominates and corrupts the <politics> of many production and trafficking zones, which are already generally poor <fucked> up places to start with:
* <Mexican drug war>
* <Golden Crescent>
* <Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia)>
Ciro's experiences in Brazil such as mentioned at <São Remo, the favela next to USP>, although much less extreme than the above, also come to mind.
Drug traffic corrupts everything. It prevents development of honest people. It is a <cancer>, which we have failed time and time a gain to cure. The only cure is to accept the other less insidious of addiction.
Bibliography:
* <How to Fix a Drug Scandal (2020)> gives a good sense of the relentlessness of the drug war, and how it affects people who are already poor the most