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What about littering?? Driving while using a cell phone or without a seat belt?

So you think illegally obtaining drugs, a crime in Florida known as doctor shopping,
is no different than littering? I think the WOD is a travesty. Are you anti-WOD or just a partisan making excuses for one of 'ours'?

Do you have any evidence that you are correct and Alan Dershowitz is wrong??? Do you have any statistics showing that of the millions who are addicted to prescription pain medicine, many or even some are being arrested?

You ask if I am anti-WOD. My answer is both yes and no.

First off, pot should be decriminalized for any amount under a half-pound or so. Instead of ruining a persons life with jail or expulsion from school, etc, a person caught with such small amounts should simply get a big fine or forced to do peace corp community service, or something like that. But jail?? Nah. That just turns the poor kid into a hardened criminal.

However, I think smugglers or maunfacturers of large amounts such non-regulated street drugs as methamphetamine, esctasy, cocaine, crack, heroin, and LSD, should continue to face tough penalties, even possible jail time.

That said, people caught with smaller amounts of "hard" drugs(as long as they didn't threaten with a gun, or strong arm their customers) should not face long sentences in a hardened prison, but incarceration at a half-way house or rehab.

Small drug users or dealers should always be kept separate from violent offenders, as long as they remain non violent.

If that means having a separate rehab or facility just for druggies, then so be it. If society continues to incarcerate drug users along with violent criminals, then we will continue to make the problems worse.

Just to wrap it up, how many people do you know who use their own (legal) drug of choice, be it alcohol or valium, yet they still throw dirt on the other guy who happens to be using a substance they consider to be unacceptable (such as hydrocodone in Rush's case).

Of course, there are problems in every so-called solution, even mine. (For example, what if someone sells drugs to a person, who later OD's and dies??)

Drug usage is not an easy problem to solve.