you ignore the fact that those suffering from their drug use, don’t just affect themselves. they do not care that family suffers, spouses suffer, kids suffer, if they lose their jobs and turn to crime for money, those victims of theirs suffer. it’s hardly just about one person.
there is such a thing as a deterrent effect to laws, and it dos stop a certain percentage of people who might consider doing it in the first place, if theydon’t stop to consider their bad choices affect others around them theyare supposed to love and love/care about them.
I do not ignore that addictions hurts others at all.
I am especially aware of that.
But that is something the addict must come to recognize, that is one of the aspects that may open eyes as to how damaging such behavior is.
But I can tell you from 20 + years of addcition and knowing addicts that the deterrent affect of such laws mean nothing.
If addiction is the path a person was set to walk upon, then that person is most certainly going to walk on that path until the time he finds his way to the right path.