[Lancey Howard]

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.

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.

[southern rock]

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.

Really? Someone here said the government should give out free heroin? I must have missed that.

[jayef]

You ever been to Hollywood?

[Protagoras]

Some people apparently think America should be just like those countries.

Only big government socialists. The credible people who oppose the insane WOD never, never advocate government involvement at all much less in bailing out people who have not taken responsibility for their own actions.

[Tauzero]

"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."

The problem with the Netherlands is not its drug policy but its welfare state policy.

Drugged-out zombies had a distinct survival disadvantage in the pre-welfare-state America.

[Nate505]

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.

You might want to check your facts before you ramble on pointlessly....unless you can show me where they pass out free heroin in Sweden. Believe it or not, it's actually a different country from Switzerland and the Netherlands!