Well Eva if you look at this thread you’ll see that its quite clear that drug users don’t accept responsibility for anything ever.
If we legalize drugs I guarantee we’ll see users suing suppliers for acts committed while under the influence of their drugs. (Kinda like smokers suing tobacco companies)
Personally I don’t have major issues with legalizing marijuana but I don’t have any Utopian fantasies about empty prisons and happy productive users. In fact we’ll end up with a whole laundry list of new laws that will continue to grow.
Funny you mention the drug court. We have a first offender program for drunk drivers. I was put into it my second time getting arrested for drunk driving. (I’ve since grown up and don’t drink) I grew up with a guy who has been on the first offender program 8 different times.
Drunk drivers are not treated as easily here, as the druggies, and we have a terrible drug problem in this rural county, and it is metastasizing. A few years ago, it was meth, now I believe that its mostly oxy and heroin. The school administrations are in denial. The meth users were easy to identify by the meth mouth (medicaid doesn’t cover meth mouth), it was a dead give away. For a while there, the some of the people were beginning to look like they came off the set of deliverance, but now you don’t see that so much.