another OT..
sorry.. Just could let this one slip by..
"According to you we should set up clinics so that people. including the kids, can go to the clinics to get their drugs free or at a very low cost. This does not solve the problem of individual abuse, it only increases it."
now- my comment to that is, how do you know the idea of treatment would result in more users??? its never been done! America deals with its drug problem with harsh minimum mandatory sentences, in most instances- drug offenders are treated more harshly than rapists and child molestors. This is a fact..Im not talking drug dealers either,.. but as human beings, in a natural instinct to protect our loved ones from killing themselves we justify taking draconian measures to stem the problem. and has it worked? Ask the 14 year olds I passed hiking in the woods last weekend..
Sorry to waste thread space, but whenever I see people typing opinions regarding our nations judicial system, and in particular our drug eradication efforts, it hits home real hard.. When I was 22, I was arrested for smoking a joint. Fine.. But in NJ, we have what is called a drug free school zone. 3 years in jail minimum mandatory. Judge didnt want to hear a single excuse.. It didnt matter that it was at 12:30 am in a restaraunt my friend owned.. all they cared was there was a school across the street and I was charged as dealing narcotics in a school zone.. 1 joint.. Essentially I could have robbed a bank at gun point and probably gotten a better deal as a first time offender.. I wont even get into the story of my friend whos child identified a 'high times' magazine which promplty lead to a raid, bust, 1/4 ounce of marijuana found and the children were place in foster homes until the matter was resolved..
its easy to say kill all criminals.. problem is, what you consider a criminal and what someone like myself consider a criminal could be 2 different things.. In an ironic twist, at the same time my life was being destroyed- our loving couple in the white house was shouting 'just say no!' as the DEA planes were quietly bringing the powder right into our childrens eager noses.. Sickening..
Nothing has an easy answer.. but when you talk about putting someone to death you need to make damn certain this person deserves this fate.. I just dont think with my experience in this joke of a legal system the rich have shaped for this country that I can honestly trust giving too rope to our elected officials.. Maybe one day we can kill people who dont chew with their mouths closed?? :) |
