So we should enact laws banning the inebriating drug alcohol as well - right?
Every day, 29 people in the United States die in motor vehicle crashes that involve an alcohol-impaired driver. [...] They are not banning marijuana, or alcohol.
Your previous subject was "making the stuff legal", not DUI laws. I support DUI laws 110% percent - and in fact support stiffening the penalties actually applied; too many drunks get repeated slaps on the wrist before killing someone.
They have failed all the way along in trying to ban drugs of any type [...] they couldn’t ban alcohol even with a Constitutional amendment (18th) which they chose to repeal (21st) because people just broke the law for recreation.
Agreed.
Do I think banning or better controlling a product for recreation that has killed that many people should be accomplished?
I'd love to see it accomplished, but blanket bans are a proven failure - and aggravate other grave problems, primarily the enrichment of violent criminals, with all the ills that entails.
“...but blanket bans are a proven failure...”
And that’s what is causing the question to be surfaced, that they had all these arrests. If they had stayed within the law, they wouldn’t have been arrested. So the problem is not that they are being blanketed, they are individually being arrested for choosing to break the law based upon their personal choice. And if the laws are wrong, then get them changed. But while they are in effect and are there to protect people from a personal choice for recreation, then they should be arrested.
And these people won’t stop there. Look at Oregon which which legalized marijuana for recreational use in 2014, and now went a step further and voted to decriminalize illicit drugs. Measure 110 makes the possession of small quantities of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamines and other drugs a civil violation subject to a $100 fine, but no jail time.
Want that on the street? It’s an open invitation to solicit kids. And the line between the pusher and the user who sells some at a higher price and/or cuts it to afford more for themselves disappears. Where does it stop if no one is stopping it but adding to it? Like I said, stupid people just ignoring the problem. And now it is legally being expanded.
The punishment needs to be harsher and more of it. But there are too many people out there that consider arresting these people for violating the law that it is an issue. And too many try to use the old alcohol comparison to weed when both accomplish the same thing. Well, they got weed. Now in Oregon they got heroin, cocaine and LSD. This thinking is getting to be a write off substituting for intelligence.
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