betacon said:
How will that stop people trying to get money for drugs? Unless they plan on free hand outs, they will still do crfime to fund their need of drugs and allowing it to be legal will on fuel that.
Cannabis sure but hard drugs like heroin and cocaine WTF. |
It's a difficult area for governments to try and deal with, because yes, if you make it legal then people will abuse it and kill themselves taking drugs. But if you have someone is trying to get off hard drugs but is finding it difficult, is putting them in prison for having a small amount on them going to deal with the issue? Of course if they have drug dealer quantities then their intent is to sell it and they need to be punished accordingly.
I think it's the right thing to do to try and help people get off the drugs and get them into a job and have hobbies like the rest of society, get out of the cycle of committing crime to fuel their addiction. And if that means not sending people with small amounts of drugs on them to prison, but give them help instead then that's probably the right way to do it. But we'll see if it actually works.
EDIT: Did you read the rest of what I said, other than what you quoted?
