I’m pretty libertarian in regards to things like drugs and sex, and am an addict myself. How would you guys feel about a harm reduction drug use sub forum?
I’m pretty libertarian in regards to things like drugs and sex, and am an addict myself. How would you guys feel about a harm reduction drug use sub forum?
Admitting you have politics they'd love to jail you for and then creating a space where people with those politics can admit to local and federal crimes? What could go wrong?
In my opinion unless the admins were very heavy handed any "harm reduction drug use" sub would sooner or later turn into a pro-drug meme sub, full of 420blazeit weedbros, and way too many marijuana memes escaping to other subs. It's one of those spaces you'd have to heavily moderate. (That or it would be so dead as to be useless for the purpose of advice for harm reduction)
I guess my question is do such spaces not exist elsewhere? What's the specific benefit of it being here?
Other points:
The fact is there are also kids here so I hear, is it right to expose them to this stuff?
Consider also people who have struggled to get clean and are browsing this site for solidarity seeing something that's basically triggering to them and their impulses and previous bad habits. Is it right to do that to them?
I’m sure the admins could handle moderating a subforum about drug use. To be frank about the memes and users, who cares? There are plenty of obnoxious memes and users everywhere on the site already. Either way, the admins and more could handle it fine I’m sure.
Spaces exist elsewhere, but a lot of them are pretty reactionary towards drug users and we aren’t exactly treated the best. I just figured a leftist space with these discussions would be less reactionary and more tolerant (though some users in this thread have me questioning that assessment)
They’re teenagers, not children they’ve probably already seen plenty of drugs and most of them probably already smoke marijuana at the very least
The last one I can understand being a concern, but that would fall to the moderation team To keep the posts in check and make sure they’re being made where they’re supposed to be.
I don’t even think I’m going to pursue this idea at this point anymore. Enough people seem weirdly upset by it that I think I’m just going to drop out.
It was just an idea