What you have to say is about as useful as two boils on a butt cheek. Society will never leave drug abusers alone.
Our choice is: prison at one end of the spectrum, nanny government rehab and coddling at the other, with a combination of the two in between.
If my money is going to extorted from me and flushed down the toilet in the direction of these losers, I vote that prison be included in their future.
It's the least they could suffer for inconveniencing the rest of us.
Always great to hear from someone who has simply shrugged his shoulders and conceded that socialism is and will always be the status quo in the U.S.of A
Well guess what! Prison for someone who has not done anything wrong IS nanny state socialism. You are paying to feed, clothe, and house these people, who have not done a damn thing to harm you, me or society. The nanny state is alive and well either way.
You are supposed to be a member of FR to fight for principle, not to concede socialism. Personally, I will fight socialism, not drugs.
Anyone who chooses the "It ought to be illegal because I don't want to pay for the consequesces" argument is a colaborator in the commie takover of America.
Do yourself a favor and put at least half the energy you put into bashing drugs and drug users into bashing taxes and the IRS, and you might gain some credibility.
Lock up anyone who doesnt wear a seatbelt while riding in a car because I might have to support them if they become a vegetable.
Lock up anyone who doesnt wear a helmet while riding a bike because I might have to support them if they become a vegetable.
Lock up anyone who doesnt wear a blabla while riding a blabla because I might have to support them if they become a vegetable.
Hey Kevin, by all means, keep bashing the red herring, and not the real problem.
You forgot to include government dispensing of heroin to hordes of zombie losers wandering around in superior, more enlightened countries like Norway, Sweden, and Netherlands. Some people apparently think America should be just like those countries.
Only in what passes for your mind. Other choices exist even if you can't conceive of them.
"Society" doesn't go after drug abusers now. It is government interests that do.
Oh, btw, the was no War on (some) Drugs before 1970.
What you fail to realize is that Liberty is a zero-sum game.
Well put....