Hawk, you probably missed much of the discussion several of us had last week regarding the legal and illegal drug issue was concerned....You said in a nutshell, some of my concerns as well.
I personally could care less if someone gets high, or "spun", or whatever state of narco-nirvana they seek to achieve. It's when those people violate my rights not to be victimized by their behavior, financially, physically, or mentally, that I say that they have abrogated their right to engage in that behavior anymore.
And that entails a debate what whether becoming a ward of the state, either through drug dependance, crack babies, or prison, does not justify some kinds of preventative laws to discourage such behavior.
Or should we just say that, once you've become a ward, you lose your personal freedoms (coercive de-tox, workfare, community service and/or jail) until such time that you can prove you're capable of being self-responsible? |
