Both these countries have decided to create drug laws that are more tolerant. They no longer criminalize the possession of drugs; therefore, drug addiction is not a criminal offence. Brand interprets and expresses the effects of these new laws as significant. If decriminalization worked in other countries then why no try it. If people understood that decriminalization is not legalization would it make a difference? How much money could be saved if people were not placed in jail for possession charges for drugs? Maybe those who need help the most would seek it if they were no longer stigmatized by being an addict. As Brand points out, those who are most severely affected by drug prohibition are dispensable, politically irrelevant people. It is Hoffman 's death, which should remind all of us that addiction is indiscriminate, and it affects us
Both these countries have decided to create drug laws that are more tolerant. They no longer criminalize the possession of drugs; therefore, drug addiction is not a criminal offence. Brand interprets and expresses the effects of these new laws as significant. If decriminalization worked in other countries then why no try it. If people understood that decriminalization is not legalization would it make a difference? How much money could be saved if people were not placed in jail for possession charges for drugs? Maybe those who need help the most would seek it if they were no longer stigmatized by being an addict. As Brand points out, those who are most severely affected by drug prohibition are dispensable, politically irrelevant people. It is Hoffman 's death, which should remind all of us that addiction is indiscriminate, and it affects us