Ravielsk
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A better question would be how do you enforce it without bashing everyone and anyone in existence. Consider the more contemporary "war on drugs", a noble pursuit that effectively did the exact inverse of what it set out to do. Keeping drugs from children's hands sound fine and dandy until you realize that the practical application of that ideal equals to locking up teens and ruining their lives because they stupidly tried some weed without hiding it well enough. You turn them into felons for a crime that they might theoretically commit in the future and then wonder why so many turn to crime. In fact, if you think about it years of fighting "drugs" has only caused people to take said drugs and their abuse less seriously because the harm caused by the "war" far exceeded the negative impacts of the drugs themselves. The only real benefit it brought was the creation of vast and highly profitable black market.1) How do you enforce said law, whithout victimizing people?
When you compare that with countries that have instead of criminalizing drugs turned them into a health issue(a.k.a you can legally seek medical assistance without facing criminal charges) you will see that they in fact have less of a drug problem than USA and they dont have to struggle with an ever growing black market.
Technically that "war" is over now but just think how much money and lives were flushed down the toilet for something as innocuous as "keep the drugs away from the children". At best it was all for nothing and at worst it only made things worse. "Well meaning authoritarians" never seem to consider the long term implications of their actions and when you point them out they pretend like you are not pointing out a flaw in their thought process but advocating for children getting hooked up on crack.