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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I voted yes and I have never used any drugs, psychedelics or otherwise. My parents are major potheads and did mushrooms in the 60s/70s and it is not a good look. That said, our criminal justice system needs major reform and the war on drugs is an abject failure. So, if having legal psychedelics in the District keeps one idiot kid (or idiot baby boomer) out of being gang-raped, etc. in jail- it is worth it. [/quote]

So what you are suggesting is to first legalize this drug, then reform the system? I do not get your logic. And if this was your reasoning to decriminalize pot, we can see what that result was. Not positive either.

I think we can all agree that we need to reform the justice system, but I think that legalizing everything is not really the best approach. It would be better to start with the judicial system, then figure out what we want to legalize. [/quote]

I am suggesting that there is a difference between marijuana/mushrooms and heroin, and putting people in jail for low-level drug offenses only fuels mass incarceration, traps people in downward spirals of being not hirable, in debt, etc. I do not think the result of decriminalizing pot in the District has been objectively a failure. We do not have enough data points to assess it, for one. Our judicial system needs a lot of reform, but this is a slow-moving process, particularly for DC residents. It will be the states who have legalized low-level drugs, and prioritized diversion/rehab over incarceration that have quantifiable data that will drive a national policy, not the other way around. [/quote]

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