Death penalty? Nah. And I am glad to live in a country that abolished it decades ago.

They would be better served being thrown into jail, given rehab. And forced to pay back society, make them farm the land in an enclosed environment and donate that food to the poor and homeless. At-least some good comes from it all.

So progressive, nothing better then living in society knowing pedophiles mass murders and rapists and terrorists get to live on the dime of the tax payers and  good chance they get one one day.   

Nothing but tax dollers wasted on criminal scum, awesome.  

They are a drain on society, will never pay back anything.  

The rest is plain delusional.

I Dont give a fuck about criminal scum, at all.  

Every drug dealer and junkie should get 1 chance then death penalty.  

It doesn't but you can't do criminal activities that hurt society while in jail to get money for drugs.

People have long since ignored the science and psychology of addiction. The same can be said about things like depression. People who do not suffer from something can't fully understand it. From their point of view, it's just stupid people being stupid etc. They ignore the science, because if they didn't, it would force them to have a different point of view and put themselves in a place of luck, not success. See, if someone walks around thinking that addiction is pure choice and depression is "just a bad mood", then that makes them strong and intelligent. It makes them feel like they're a better person. It validates their self-worth. If they buy into the science of it all, then all of a sudden, theyre just lucky. They're not better, more intelligent, tougher etc. They just won out in some random genetic game of chance and had all of that handed to them.

To understand human behavior, you have to get into the psychology of it all. Once you do, everything becomes really fucking clear and people become really fucking predictable and obvious. 

And that tactic obviously doesn't work, because recidivism is very high.

It's not a permanent solution but it is a temporal one. If you don't put them in jail innocent people need to pay for their addiction in what world is that fair. You can't sober everyone up since its too costly rehab is a very intensive and costly business. If you would put every junky in rehab and a large percentage will still go back to using drugs it would cost billions of dollars in the US alone. In a perfect world you would everyone with their addiction in this world however these funds can better be spend on Healthcare and education.

Agreed. To me it smells like a run-over skunk, I'll never understand how people who smoke it can stand the smell.

Yes and desperation and war leads people to blow themselves up at concerts. Or take any other even in Europe/the Midfle East the last couple of years. Using drugs is bad and should always be condemned by society. It's a business which gets lots of innocent people killed in South America and everyone who uses drugs is a part of that problem. Also the US should stop using opiates as painkillers since they are addictive as fuck.

Hmm. Have you noticed a big difference pre-meds and post-meds?

That's a direct result of it beind condemned and penalised so heavily though. If it were legalised and regulated then that wouldn't happen.

It also sounds like you're equating using drugs with terrorism which is just ridiculous. I don't know about you but I'd MUCH rather someone were to become a drug addict than a terrorist...