Great retaliation, now if only you could change the drug use statistics of current criminals in prison that were high while committing a crime. Also the threat is also to the users family. NO person has the right to destroy the ones around them. No one has the right to take a substance that takes away their ability to function as a resposible human.
Statistics will tell you that most people are in jail or prison because they were found to be in posession of or caught selling drugs. Not because of something they did under the influence of drugs.
Also the threat is also to the users family. NO person has the right to destroy the ones around them. No one has the right to take a substance that takes away their ability to function as a resposible human.
Absolutely people have that right. People have a right to act like complete utter irresponsible *ssholes.
I don't know that this is a valid statistic to use. How many people in America used drugs and did not commit a crime (other than the drug possession)? We do not know this percentage. I mean, if 99.995% of the people that used drugs did not also commit a crime, you would be hard pressed to show a relation. And until the government gives daily urine tests to every citizen, we can never know this answer for comparison.
For what it's worth, my opinion is that drug laws are clearly a state's rights issue under the Constitution. States should be able to make laws prohibiting or allowing alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, etc. I do not believe any of these should be addressed at the Federal level. This country is designed to be 50 mini-republics with their own ideas. When we blend everything down to the homogenous mushy middle (that 'everyone can agree to,' but few actually do) we lose the ability to learn from the successes and failures of trying different ways.