Posted on 12/26/2019 2:15:16 PM PST by rktman
On Monday, during an interview with the Des Moines Register, 2020 presidential hopeful mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Pete Buttigieg said drug possession should not result in jail time.
Buttigieg said, Incarceration should not even be a response to drug possession. What I have seen is while there continues to be all kinds of harms associated with drug possession and use, it is also the case that we have created in an effort to deal with a public health problem, we have created an even bigger problem a justice problem, and its own form of a health problem when you think about the adverse aspects on a child. We have kids in South Bend who have grown up with the incarnation of a parent as one of their first experiences.
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Up here in Humboldt county the decriminalization is so bad old Newsom pulled agents off the border to bust illegal grows. It's way worse than ever. I honestly could not imagine what would happen with old Buttboy's idea.
Must be the kind of flower the faggies put in their drinks at the fern bar.
Awesome plan huh?
No jail, but each criminal arrested must do a time out at butt-giggitys home before theyre pardoned.
There are two reasons for possessing drugs. (Three if you include legitimate research). Either you intend to use them, or give them to a loved one, or you intend to sell them for a profit.
How are these two reasons ascertained?
No he is not. A libertarian would simply repeal the laws that criminalize drug usage and remove government control from drugs. What Buttigieg is recommending is much different.
You sir are an idiot that I am sure has never had to deal with some idiot on meth!
It’s the amount of drugs, the number of different types of drugs (each is it’s own charge) plus whatever applicable enhancements. For the guy I had in mind, they raided his house, tons of kids around, nearby a park, drugs were in large amounts. That gets him for selling drugs in a drug free zone, enhancing third degree and second degree up a notch, respectively. Also habitual felony offender, as he had a bunch of felonies for violent acts, evading arrest, etc., but was constantly out on the street anyway.
This is Harris County though, which has Houston. Mayor Turner land.
What? Howzat? Some other nation will conquer us and enslave us and our children? So what???
Anyway slavery was abolished back in the ...uh...a long time ago... It's illegal. They can't do that.
There are no drug users without drug cartels and drug dealers and drug smugglers and drug enforcers
Ah, now I get it!
“What was the parent incarnated as?”
Rabid drug users.
This guy is nuts. Lack of enforcement for drug
possession will only encourage greater use.
70,000 per year die in the US on average from
drug overdose. Expect that number to increase
under this idiots’ policies.
Even for dealers with $1 mil in drugs in the trunk of their car ???
If he instead stated that an end-user caught in minor possession was “incarcerated” for several years in a treatment and recovery facility with no release until proven healed and recovered, instead of straight up prison, that would make sense.
Nonsense. Is the illegality of heroin or meth YOUR primary reason for not using them? It's way down on my list.
Why? Leaglization of the mind-altering addictive drug alcohol has proved to work much better than banning it.
I do have some thoughts on what I believe is a better approach, but since they would never be put into practice, it's pointless to talk about them.
I'd like to hear them. :)
No one in our family died. We stayed away from drugs for the most part, and somehow did just fine in life.
OK, so you care only about how you and your family have been affected. How much of your money and your family's was taken by the government and spent on protecting the cartels' monopoly in the drug market?
Isn’t that a person’s base thinking in strenuous times? My family first, everything else a distant second? Isn’t that how we got the first Thanksgiving? Each family farmed for itself and saved themselves from starvation?
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