What is your Stance?

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I have one....

and it's not pretty....

Having been the victim of a Crystal Meth addict as recent as less than a year ago? And being almost wiped out?

Well.....Let me think on how to phrase it...

Because I have different thoughts on different drugs....really..I do...

But do not call them "victimles crimes"....I get soooooo when I hear that...

I have a story...and it was not victimless......

Let me think about it before answering.....

Thanks Galactus..for asking this..I am curious too....

 

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Yes, it should...and right now..I need to sit, drink a cup of coffee and gather my thoughts before respoding out of anger, and dang near rage......

It took a lot to climb out of the hole they left me in..Financially, Emotionally, etc.....

and I found out , that yes...Life is tough....

But I'm tougher.

Give me a pot of coffee or at least a few cups...I'll be back.....count on it!

 

My personal thought is legalize it all. If they are legal it removes a lot of the violence because it removes a lot of the cost of smuggeling and so on just like booze in the 20s really created the mob and once prohibition was over they had to find other things to make the money from. Second if its legal it can be regulated better than it currently is and those drugs that tend to cause more violent reactions could be restricted to use in areas where it is only others chooseing to destroy themselves with them anyway. Drugs are so easy to get now that selling them at the convenience stores would not make them any easier to get just easier to regulate. If people are going to flush their lives on the crap they will do so regardless of laws so let them do it in a manner that costs society less. By legalizeing the drugs they can then do their 'sin taxes' on them the same as they do on alcohol or more like tobaco where as much as 90% of the cost is tax, if the profit for smuggeling dosnt have to be there the cost of manufactureing the drugs is so cheap they could cut the prices even lower than they are now on the streets and make billions of dollars each year in taxes that could go to law enforcement to make sure that ny of those chooseing to use drugs that are not being taxed and those commiting other crimes weather drug related or not can be put in or under the jails that could be expanded with all the new revenew. A part of this money could also be used to continue drug education and even expand it in schools so that anyone useing the drugs is fully informed ahead of time (as they tend to be already if they admit it or not) of exactly what it is they are doing to them selves and what they can look forward to.
So baiscly my stance is, if they want to kill themselves let them so we can be rid of them and let them pay society for the privlige of doing so. Haveing them illegal sure as the hell dont work the way its being done so its either make them legal or make it a capitol crime and execute all the users as well as dealers or keep liveing with the scum and crap that it creates, especialy in the case of some of the drugs like meth, crack, heroin and some others. Oh and that ANY drug which has medicinal value should be able to be perscribed or used for the medicinal purposes.

 

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All true..and I witnessed it first hand...I guess since this does hit so close to home..I can't form an unbiased opinion...

melbo? He already went thru alcohol....and then cocaine....then Oxycontin....then moved on to Crystal Meth...
The Meth was the only drug that had him stealing from everyone he came in contact with..........the only one.

I have seen the devastation...from drugs. On the user..the families...the children of addicts...and the friends ....
An alcoholic may steal from you...but he/she is going to invite you along for the ride , with them...
and they usually own up to it somewhere along the way....again..MY experience , only..

But addicts are different....

and I also agree with ghrit about certain drugs and the maturity level..

I can't see anyone smoking pot, going out and stealing everything they can get their hands on...

And yes, melbo...I'd rather be behind someone stoned than someone drunk anyday....although I would rather not be on the road with anyone chemically altered...

I don't know..

All I know is he wiped out my savings acct from stealing my debit card...and stole my credit cards..and maxxed them out and went over the limit....and did TWO MONTHS in a county jail...and they wonder why credit card fraud is rampant??

I guess there can't be a blanket punishment as the crimes seem to accelerate with different drug use..

I know it's a good thing the law found him before I did....

Today? I have learned to say No..and mean it...and to not be so trusting with family members....or anyone for that matter...and that angers me too! It's like they not only stole my money...but some of the joy of life, that makes me "me".....and that pisses me off even more , if that is possible....


I still need to think about this one...Like I said..perhaps I am too close to this one..

 

I just remembered an old thing from some comedian....He was talking about the "impact" of the whole "Just Say No" campaign the first lady started...


Said she had a new one , for homeless people....

"Just Get a House"......

Putting in perspective how little impact the Just Say No campaign really had on society..



People are going to use drugs...people are going to abuse drugs....there IS a difference...

Be it alcohol...prescription drugs...or illegal ones....

It is as old as the Bible...

Proverbs...best description of alcoholism I ever read....

29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? (8675) who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? 30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. 31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. 32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. 33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. 34 Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. 35 They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.


Even though it was beating them to death? They go after it again...

This problem is as old as time.....

 

Drugs are a problem, but the so-called "War on Drugs" is a much greater problem. Anything that creates a black-market ecconomy in lower income areas has the impact of making my personal possessions a chip on the table in a game that I choose not to play.

 

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