Posted on 01/10/2014 8:28:53 AM PST by SeekAndFind
“The Governor and all of the hippie scumbags that pretend to be LE in Burlington can’t pick out the dope dealers from the local citizenry?
The Governor and his kind are lunatics that ought to be locked up.
Real cops could take care of the Heroin problem in Burlington in 30 days.”
I agree. In fact, it may not even take 30 days.
Just legalize it and all the problems are solved. /sarc
They do through cons and theft. An addict’s mind will rewire itself to do anything it takes for the drug. Steal from their own mother, sell their children, etc.
Right now the addict process goes like this:
-Addict steal $1000 worth of stuff from us EVERY DAY and sells it for $100.
-Addict hands $100 to a dealer for $10 worth of product.
-Addict gets caught and stays in jail at a cost to us of $60k a year.
-If the addict gets injured by bad drugs or violence, he ends up in a hospital and the incredible costs are paid by us.
-Once the addict is out of jail/hospital he continues the process over again until he dies. Usually draining society of millions of dollars while alive.
IMO, it would be far cheaper and safer to give addicts drugs, treatment and a place to sleep. Addiction seems to be genetic and 1-2% of the population has always fallen into some form of it.
The best thing to do is arrest the drug dealers and make it difficult for people to become addicts.
Allowing anybody who wants to be given free housing and free drugs and allowed to live as parasites on society for their entire life doesn’t seem like a good solution.
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Global war on heroin, cocaine and cannabis failing as prices fall and purity rises
1 October 2013
United States: The prices of heroin, cocaine and cannabis tumbled by 81 percent, 80 percent and 86 percent respectively between 1990 and 2007 in the United States when adjusted for inflation, the researchers found.
Over the same period, the average purity of these drugs rose by 60 percent, 11 percent and 161 percent respectively.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2439967/Global-war-heroin-cocaine-cannabis-failing-prices-fall-purity-rises.html
And it still won’t help. If the Soviet Union couldn’t stop drug use we’ll never pull it off. And I’m not willing to become a police state to try, we’ve burned too much of the Bill of Rights on the guaranteed to fail drug war already, it’s far past time to admit that you quite simply cannot ever stop people from doing drugs, if they want to they will.
Right on! Give them treatment once and after that, they are on their own.
I think you are being defeatist. You don't need to be a police state, you just need honest politicians and a willingness to arrest the bad guys and enforce the law.
When Rudy Giuliani became mayor of NYC violent crime, much of it drug related, was out of control. Homicides were over 2200 per year, drug related crime was everywhere. All the elites and experts said we should just be defeatist and give up because the problem was unsolvable. They said continually increasing crime rates were inevitable and could not be reduced. Giuliani reduced violent crime by over 75% by simply enforcing the law and arresting the bad guys. In recent years violent crime has decreased even more.
It can be done, the way to do it is simple. Don't let politicians protect the bad guys. Arrest the bad guys and give them long prison terms. Enforce the law.
It’s not defeatist, it’s understanding basic human nature. Prohibition simply does not work, human beings crave distraction, we need distraction, our mind REQUIRES distraction. In the end drugs (and alcohol) are simply part of our entertainment industry. There’s as much chance in ending the use of a particular drug as there is of ending a genre, it’s just not going to happen.
It CAN’T be done, they can’t even keep drugs out of prison, there’s no way they’re keeping them out of a whole country.
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