People Who do Not Return Dishes

[conniee]

I don't get why you think drug users don't belong in jail....if jail were the way it was supposed to be their would not be many people in jail. Besides is there were no drug users there would be no drug pushers because there would be no money...Unless we come up with a plan to take the money out of it...it will not go away.
However, I am against legalizing drugs, but I would vote for it if I could, just as you say to keep from housing and feeding these people. But, just like acohol, and having the bars close at 2..(at least in Texas) why not leave them open and let the people drink until they are through drinking...but no, we send them home so they can come back tomorrow..and it would end up the same way with drugs...we would be taking care of a lot more people.
My brother says we should let everyone out of prison and fill one prison in every state with drugs..they would be free and people could come and use all they want, but they must be drug free for three days before they could leave. Oh, but that is locking up the users, and you are against that...but if we did it that way, we would not have to feed them because they would not eat...we would not have to have cops to watch them because there would be enough drugs for everyone to have their fill...this sounds like the best idea I have heard yet.

 

[Mama Mangia]

why put them in jail? give them all the drugs they want so they can kill themselves and save the taxpayers a ton of money, save the doctors and hospitals the headches of putting up with them and trying to save their useless lives, and free our society of them all

it's just so much cheaper that way

 

[conniee]

Well, I for one do not want the drugs in my town or my neighborhood. The
drugs should be localized in one part of a state and not where people would
commit crimes while high on these drugs.
Even if you give them drugs you aren't safe because they will still come hurt you.

 

[jglass]

I had an elderly neighbor here for years who was the sweetest thing ever. They let this deadbeat wife abuser move in here once and they were on drugs. My neighbor called me one night scared out of her wits near midnight cause he was knocking on her door. I live just around the corner from her so I stepped outside to see what was going on. Twerp looks around the corner when he hears our door and he had on a hooded sweatshirt with a ball cap and had the hood pulled way down over his face. When he saw me he started putting it all down and laughing. I asked him what he was doing and he stammers a minute and says he wanted to borrow an onion from my neighbor. I told him she was about to call the police. He had been knocking on her door for 20 minutes.

He says your awful brave and I took the 38 I had in my sweatshirt out and said I have 38reasons you do not scare me in the least. I told him if anyone bothered her they would have me to deal with. He never had the guts to try anything on me in person so 2 weeks after they kicked them out my front tires on my car ended up cut. Weasel went to jail about 6 months after that for breaking into an outdoor shop and stealing some guns. I think he is still in jail. That jerk had both landlords here scared to death of him. I asked my neighbor the next day if she had let them into her apartment for anything and she said they had come in there a couple of times to use her phone. I told her to never let them in again. She was around 80 then and bad to leave money laying out. I told her he had bad intention for her that night. He has thought she had money and or meds he could steal. He def had his face hidden that night when I went out. They never bothered her again after that. I hate to think what may have happened if she had let him in that night. All because of drugs. He was a smaller pretty guy so it warms my heart to think of how popular he is prison.

 

[chubbyalaskagriz]

I think it's a naive mistake to presume that we'll lose whole generations- or whole neighborhoods if drugs are legalized. No one is sitting around chomping at the bit waiting to get high- SHOULD drugs be made legal. Just ain't gonna happen. Those who want to get high- already are.

Drug enforcement AIN'T working. As far back as Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" campaign, the drug war has been a complete and utter joke.

Cigs and alcohol are far more dangerous, and far more negative-impacting on society than drugs are.

Legalizing drugs will give us a product to tax and make revenue from.

Legalizing drugs takes them and their immense profits out of the hands of the Mob and Organized Crime.

Legalizing drugs takes them and their immense profits out of the hands of the Mexican Cartels and the War-Lords. (The Mexican Cartels are currently filtering tons of $$$ to organizations in California that are campaiging against legalization of drugs. The Mexican Cartels wanting drugs to REMAIN ILLEGAL here in the U.S. is reason enough to look at this whole thing differently.)

Our prisons are estimated to be at least half to two-thirds full of drug offenders. The prisons are over-crowded, they cost and exhorbatant amount of money to run- and most convicted of drug charges become serial offenders- returning to incarceration again and again and again. Legalizing drugs takes a huge benign chunk out of the prison system and loosens-up a lot of space, time, resources and $$$. It only makes sense from an efficiency stand-point. In my state we are letting murderers and rapists out early years before their sentences are complete to make room for newly-convicted drug criminals. I'd much rather see the violent criminals remain incarcerated than a dope-smoker.

Lastly- keeping drugs illegal is quite simply another form of legislating morality. People ought to be free to do as they wish- people have the right to make mistakes. People have the right to get high- and to be addicts. Legislating it does not stop it- does not even slow it down- and it creates a battle that quite simply cannot be won. All at tremondous cost and waste of tax-payer's dollars and resources. Look at all of Prohibition's failures back in the 1930's. Same thing.

I feel the idea that keeping drugs illegal stops addiction, is archaic and antiquated, naive and misguided. Let the people choose for themselves. Several places around the globe where there are no drug laws show us that seldom does choice lead to mass abuse, increased addiction or even individual gluttony when it comes to drugs. And not only are these places some of the very loveliest cultures in our world- but in these places there are also is no organized crime, no rogue cartels and no violence or over-crowding of prisons. That's good enough for me.

And this comes from someone who does not smoke, drink or do drugs at all- never have- never will. I think drugs and all associated w/ them are nothing but ugly. But I've seen them illegal and battled against my entire life and we have not made one iota of progress. Not one inch. All we do- and all we have done is failing. It's time for a more realistic and pragmatic apporach. Living in a fairy-tale dream-land about it isn't helping one bit. And as I said yesterday- when drugs are illegal- they are in my life and I resent that- as a citizen I have to pay for enforcement of the drug laws w/ my tax dollars. If they were legal- they would leave my life forever- and that's what I want- for drugs to be out of my life completely and for good.

Just my two cents...