“...and didn’t see why so much money and time was devoted to stopping the unstoppable”
I would say well over half our domestic problems are due to drug use. People loafing around on the government dole...often drug users. Read about a murder in the paper...usually involved drugs. Window smashed and car stereo gone...desperate people (ie addicted people) do that...and commit most petty crime.
I’m not here to defend the war on drugs....but I don’t pretend that drug use should be left unchecked.
How about - if you have been convicted of a drug crime in the last 5 years, you must be drug tested to get gubmint assistance. Not everybody on welfare...just the known drug users.
This remote area I live in is poor and depressed-snowbirds don’t have the money to winter here any more, businesses closed, empty vaca cabins, etc, and yes, there are meth labs out here. We don’t have much crime, in spite of those things-maybe because pretty much all of us are armed and know how to shoot. It is not that uncommon for a criminal to be shot, whether petty thief or would-be murderer.
As far as I’m concerned, if someone is idiot enough to kill themselves getting stoned, that just makes them a Darwin award contender-and if you are able bodied, you get your ass to work-no welfare-I don’t care if that job is mucking out stables on some dude ranch-you won’t be getting stoned or committing crimes if you need to keep a job or be homeless and without even welfare. That would deprive a bunch or illegals of work, too-they’d go home.
Just about any probation arrangement includes drug testing.