What purpose is served in criminalizing drug use? [View all]

[Stinky The Clown]

I am not talking about serious dealing or importing. I am talking about using and maybe selling small amounts to keep up with the cost of using.

I see no purpose at all to charging drug users and drug addicts as felons, or even misdemeanors, for that matter.

I am not condoning heroin use or any of the new addictives, but I am perfectly good with excluding it from the criminal system and putting where it belongs, in the medical system.

What good does it do for a person to be given a felony conviction and then told to get their shit together and live a good live. How do you get your shit together when you can't get a job other than restaurant server?

The threat, and ultimately the fact, of criminal penalties have shown themselves to have virtually zero downward mitigative effect on drug use. In fact, drug use is up and up by big numbers. It is epidemic in big cities, suburban neighborhoods, and rural towns. No one is immune, and no place, no law, no lecture, no leader, no penalty has been able to slow it down.

Its beyond time to decriminalize all recreational drugs, bite the bullet and treat addicts, and stop giving life sentences of poverty and societal shunning to people who get hooked.










And before anyone goes there . . . fuck Rand Paul.