Crackheads Might Get A Break

[waterboy]

quote:Originally posted by MH2010

quote:Originally posted by waterboy

quote:Originally posted by MH2010

quote:Originally posted by waterboy

I'm glad your lifestyle is working for you. If it is the answer to drug addiction and you don't share it with the rest of the world then its a crime.

Seriously, distilled into a few words, you don't use drugs and you don't think anyone should. Admirable. A cop agrees with you. Astounding.

CF makes more sense though. We continue to think that these are simple lifestyle decisions that prison sentencing is going to modify. When you look at the multiple factors involved with drug usage including Biology, Sociology, education, wealth etc., the concept of incarceration as a cure or even as protection for the rest of us, isn't working. Then to exacerbate the mistake by punishing crack users more than powder users over some idea that they are more dangerous by default, is silly.

Punishing drug users is a political tool right up there with abortion, government waste, taxes and immigration. Easy to get elected using that tool.

Spoken like someone who has never been around addiction or affected by it.

There goes any credibility you had with me. Moronic remark. Yes, I have been around a lot of addicted personalities and have been directly affected by it. Family, friends, employees and co-workers. Chances are I saw it from a different perspective than you but of course your view is unassailable. Just lock the bastards up eh? Now that you have outed my circle you feel better?

You lock up the drug dealers. They are pieces of $H!*.  The simple addicts need drug court.  Tulsa County has an outstanding program.  If they refuse to go into rehab and actively try to kick the habit, they need to be locked up or put on ankle monitors so they can be monitored and caught during their next crime spree to get their fix.   The damage they do to the community far outway any expense that is occurred by them being in prison, monitored or in a manditory lock-down rehab facility.

Not surprising that you would see the answer to such problems as a function of the courts, the jails and the police. If you could step out of your role within that paradigm you might see it differently.

No one likes drug dealers, except maybe their mothers. Their motivations are pure greed. Their enablers however, pawn shops, dirty cops, cab companies, restaurant/club owners, scum bag attorneys, johns...the people who all make the system work so well? They are just businessmen making a living.

[MH2010]

"Just say no."

[tim huntzinger]

No.

[PonderInc]

[Neptune]

quote:Originally posted by PonderInc

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!


Take my eye, please!!!

[waterboy]

quote:Originally posted by MH2010

"Just say no."

Ixnay.

[Conan71]

Sometimes it's okay to say yes to crack:



Sometimes it's just repugnant:

[FOTD]

You could have spared us of that second crack.... It's a bad reminder of what's in the future....

[tim huntzinger]

Extended and revised remarks regarding this issue.

1. Alcohol is a drug.
2. Many psychotropics that are currently available by prescription only should be OTC.
3. Marijuana is not harmless.
4. Drug abuse destroys too many families.

[Conan71]

quote:Originally posted by tim huntzinger

Extended and revised remarks regarding this issue.

1. Alcohol is a drug.
2. Many psychotropics that are currently available by prescription only should be OTC.
3. Marijuana is not harmless.
4. Drug abuse destroys too many families.

In re: Item 3- many things are not harmless when put in the hands of the wrong people.