Narcotics policy is a very difficult thing

Kimmo Huosionmaa

Narcotics policy is a very difficult thing. Even if we will release narcotic users from punishments what consists drug use, and we will give them free methadone, the will face a very difficult problem. When the policy with narcotics is under construction, the laws must be made that way, that users of drugs can tell their information to the police without fear of revenge, and they must have the cure for their addiction. The problem is that narcotic users might make other crimes before they will come to the methadone program.



And those crimes might be very serious like street violence, robberies and attack against police. Those crimes must take to the justice system, and other society can't accept that kind of actions against other people. Legalization of marijuana is not the same thing as the legalization of heroin or fentanyl. That is the thing, what everybody must understand.


 When we are talking about drug marketing and legalization of narcotics we normally think that if narcotics will be legal, that very dangerous stuff will pull out from hands of the criminals. But there is a small little problem with drug users. They might not have the sense of responsibility, and that's why they might sell their methadone to other people, to get money for telephones or music-equipment.


Those narcotics makes people addicting much more dangerous way than normal alcohol. In some countries is legal to give also strong drugs for narcotics user, if they need medical attention for withdrawal symptoms. Those symptoms make those people very angry and impulsive, what means same as dangerous.  But in real life, there is a little danger, that somebody who is not narcotics user will come to test those drugs.


Drug policy is very difficult thing to handle. It's difficult to make good laws about this very difficult and complex problem. The problem with legal drugs is how to block those stuff from the people, who doesn't still use them. This is a nucleus of that problem, how to deny drug dealers and user to sell those stuff to underage people, who can't take care themselves.


So the answer to the problem is that those users can go to "drug hotel" or hospital and take them dose but they are not allowed to take those stuff out. So I think that if we will legalize drugs for every people, it will cause social problems, what is more, difficult to handle than if drugs are legal. But alcohol is a legal drug, and it causes also the very bad problem. I think that many people would never test drugs even if they are legal.


But the problem with drugs and alcohol are people, who addict very easy. I don't know is that because of genetics, but some people can't resist drugs.  When we are talking about drug policy, we will sometimes forget, that that stuff is very devastating, if they will put to some truck drivers coffee. And that is one reason because they are illegal. The use of drugs is the very big tragedy to all parts of that problem.


Users of drugs are sometimes very violent, and that's the problem with making laws about that thing. Some users make their families life hell, but if we will legalize narcotics, we might pull that merchandise out of hands of cocaine- or other drug cartels. This text is only thinking about this problem, and there is always another opinion about those things. But the most of the street violence is something connected with drug marketing. And this is one aspect, what we must realize when the laws are under construction.