You're right about not legislating morality.......but I don't want to finance all of the dead beat dumb a$$ drug users by way of tax payer funded treatment centers. If you want to let all of the druggies die in the street....legalize away. If you want to pay for all of the extra crimes that go with drug use ....legalize away.
Freedom isn't always pretty.
Free people have the right to poison themselves.
Free people have the right to kill themselves.
Imagine for a moment that we stopped throwing billions at incarcerating or finding ways to catch our citizens (and making HUGE profits off of it i.e. for-profit prisons) and instead threw that money at HELPING them
You started off strong then failed horribly. If I'm going to be forced to hand over money one way or the other I'd prefer spending it to keep scumbags away from my family, not paying for their "treatment" in the halfway house bought with tax money across the street.
How's that system working out for us? Drug addicts aren't necessary scumbags.
Treat addiction as the medical condition it is.
Your tax dollars are already being used for this.You're right about not legislating morality.......but I don't want to finance all of the dead beat dumb a$$ drug users by way of tax payer funded treatment centers.
Where do you think they are currently dying?If you want to let all of the druggies die in the street....legalize away.
Remind me how many Valentine's Day Massacres we've had over booze since we legalized alcohol.If you want to pay for all of the extra crimes that go with drug use ....legalize away.
Bingo. This has the knock on effect of reducing crime, and the expenses associated with that.Well, legalizing any drug would certainly suck the profit out of pushing it.
Considering I've had crippling back and neck pain (Couple fused disks and a fairly displaced one) for the past 7 years and can't find a doctor willing to do a single thing about it besides tell me to take Tylenol, it'd be nice to have the option of something to survive the bad days.
Imagine for a moment that we stopped throwing billions at incarcerating or finding ways to catch our citizens (and making HUGE profits off of it i.e. for-profit prisons) and instead threw that money at HELPING them instead of making them unemployable drains on society (repeat offenders or unable to find work that pays a living wage). I know, it's a stretch around here.. helping those that can't or won't help themselves is strictly verboten... but the end result is one less thing our country isn't Number 1 at number of incarcerated people
I'm wondering how many people understand one part of drugs being illegal. It destroys communities. I've yet to have anyone tell me how legalizing meth and bringing meth houses into your neighborhood is something you want. You do not want people addicted to meth, making it in their house next door, and blowing themselves and you up. you do not want unemployed, addicted wackos running around your neighborhood at 3 a.m. stealing stuff from you to pay your neighbor for such a destructive and nasty drug. Its about removing those people from your communities. Just watch an episode of cops, and watch them go into trailer parks riddledd with drugs, the people are shooting each other, beating each up, stealing, all this bad stuff because of these drugs. If you want to legalize weed, go for it, i've heard all arguments for and against and its clear, its less dangerous than alcohol. Go for it. But meth, crack, heroine?? these people commit all kinds of other crimes to get their fix. They dont contribute to society, they only hurt.
Its like most social programs we like to gripe about, ideally they'd be gone but they are here and the conversation should be pragmatic. We're spending money on this drug war that would be better spent on rehabilitation. Costs money to lock people up, they aren't paying taxes, they aren't supporting their families etc. In a perfect world we don't support their rehab or anything. However of the realities we get to pick from rehab is the preferred option.
I don't find the possibility of ending the war on drugs and reducing taxes as a result to be unrealistic. If given the option of continuing as we are or legalizing and spending the same money to provide more free **** to those who refuse to earn it, I'll stick with what we've got.
No one is owed anything; not on this planet, not in this country, not in this life. I'm tired of hearing excuses as to why that isn't true when it absolutely is.