OkSixpack wrote:
I am all for treatment! Giving people illegal drugs is not treatment, it is allowing them to get illegal drugs for free. People NEEDING pain meds. can't get them for free, why on earth should illegal drug users? May be if the punishment was bad enough, there would be fewer drug dealers, and it would follow that there would be fewer users overall. Make it a voluntary system. Those that are willing to pay for illegal drugs for users, let them do it. If you don't want to don't.
Jim
Jim -- if it's decriminalized, then it becomes treatment. Much less expensive than courts and prisons - not to even begin to count the expense value of the crimes, theft, and peanut $$ an addict sells valuable equipment for to feed that addiction.
