For example, the [former] Chief of Police in #Köln (#Cologne) advocated for abolishing #NonviolentDrugOffenses from criminal code (namely, minor amounts of #Cannabis [#Weed and #Hash]) because the mandate to press charges got police officers to waste time reporting #drug #users / #consumers, knowing any minor amount [ <20g ] would get tossed by prosecutors entirely and even at repeat offenders only result in a fine.

• Which is #PersonnelHours wasted to actually work on real #crime (and i.e. go after burglars, carjackers, and armed robbers) than 'busting' that same person self-medicating because they can't afford prescription weed at moonrock prices nor find a doctor to prescribe.

(This was in the late 2010s BTW!)

Personally, I'd want to see the "#PortugueseModel" of #decriminalization and #care towards #DrugUsers and #addicts because the only way to exercise #PublicHealth, #YouthProtection and #ConsumerProtection standards is by having a "bright field" where #regulation is possible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR3Ynx0s8gE&t=371s

@thomasfricke
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It is designed to make us #addicted

Our #society is not a cosy place

#capitalism is not cuddly

But with #digitalization & #gamification it developed tools to let us forget our dreadful situations

And find good feelings, wonderful hormone kicks provided by machines

We are a society #addicts

Addicted to machines

#cybernetics works with the myth of "machines full of grace" & its theoretical offsprings like #transhumanism are deeply #religious

@BlumeEvolution @evawolfangel