This nation is deeply in debt and has daily incursions over our southern border by the Mexican army protecting drug cartel shipments into our nation - and you blather about being humane!
There is a point where liberal platitudes become absurd. Being humane to drug addicts is not one of them. People deserve a chance to get out of drug addiction and I’ve already stated that I support that to a certain extent, but not for decades. The fact that they want to stay stoned, or slowly kill themselves with heroin or cocaine or meth, might on the surface seem to be a private choice. But it is, in fact, one that has a huge cost, not only on the addict’s family but on public safety and on the nation’s culture in general.
I refuse to be part of a support system for druggies. As I’ve already stated, providing a drug addict with an opportunity to get clean and sober through treatment is a good first start. Backsliding occurrs, but a stiffer treatment the second time around - going cold turkey and serving a three-year prison sentence - sounds about right and could be the way for many if not most to go clean for the rest of their lives. Particularly since on the third strike the result would be capital punishment.
Enough is enough.
The problem is quantity. If they get all they want for cheap they will be dead very quickly. End of problem.