society must have legal ways to deal with these people regardless if they understand that’ or not. hence laws with consequences. these laws don’t just come about on their own without community and society input. thats why states have different laws. but when we see one state where lax laws fail, and another where the problem is under better control, to ignore what works and what isn’t is denying what’s in front of your facde.
/johnny
Here’s the thing, Secret Agent Man. I’m going to try to do my best to explain why laws with consequences do not matter in the instance of addiction.
There is a drug out there called Krokodil. It’s a cheap knock of heroin out of Russia. It’s made with coedine pills and gasoline and red phosphorus and iodine. I am not sure of the exact ingredient list or process as I have never done this or known anyone who has done this, but it seems generally really unwise to shoot such a concoction into one’s veins.
Yet people do this. And the side effects of it are astounding. Over a course of two years, it will rot you from the inside out.
I could link videos that are so unbelievavble that they may well make you vomit in disgust, so I won’t link those, but if you google krokodil you can see it.
So, if one considers that use of this drug will cause you to watch the flesh fall off of your bones before you watch your own skeltal leg be amputated, and you don’t even need anesthesia because the nevers in that leg died long ago, then it is hard to imagine how jail or fines for the same activity even matters at all.
Clearly there is something driving this behavior that is for more imprtant to the addict than whether or not they are going to jail.
Not only does the chemical addiction itself eclipse every other consideration imaginable, one also has to wonder what coused a person to walk down this path to Hell in the first place.
What trouble can be so great that they choose to escape it by injecting gasoline into their veins?
This is something that is far outside the scope of law.