Because the drugs are 100x worse than alcohol. These drug addicts behavior is worse than alcoholics.
I’d rather live in a society where people don’t need to turn to drugs. And I would prefer building a coalition of like minded people and stamp out druggies and their enablers.
Some people like to use drugs. It's their body, and should be their right. If you have a problem with specific behavior that you associate with drugs - and that behavior negatively affects other people and is not protected - the regulate that behavior.
Since neither crushing supply nor crushing demand seem to actually work at all, maybe it'd be more effective to directly address the problem of the people on the street.
The people on the street didn’t magically spawn as drug addicts.
They chose that life. And they drive the demand.
I am from a third world hellhole and I find it sad that people here can’t just accept personal responsibility. We didn’t even have running water. Instead of doing drugs we chose to persevere and try.
Here you have public libraries with hella resources and so many charities and public services. I mean there’s medi-cal in California and programs for basically everything. I sometimes volunteer at a food bank and they give out free meals..
Funnily enough, I don't imagine there are many Honduran drug dealers in the kitchens, soccer fields, farms, and home depots where ICE is focusing their efforts these days.
Why not legalise [some more] drugs to help solve the problems?
The unfortunates get the fix. The dealers won't deal. The state gets the money.
Because the drugs are 100x worse than alcohol. These drug addicts behavior is worse than alcoholics.
I’d rather live in a society where people don’t need to turn to drugs. And I would prefer building a coalition of like minded people and stamp out druggies and their enablers.
Supply and demand. Crush them both.
Been doing that since the 80s, how's it going?
People choose to do drugs. End of day, it is all mental.
Some people like to use drugs. It's their body, and should be their right. If you have a problem with specific behavior that you associate with drugs - and that behavior negatively affects other people and is not protected - the regulate that behavior.
Cool, and most people don't want to see fentanyl zombies and cracked out people shitting/screaming.
You can go drugs, but in a democracy people like me who don't want to deal with the crackheads will win out.
Since neither crushing supply nor crushing demand seem to actually work at all, maybe it'd be more effective to directly address the problem of the people on the street.
The people on the street didn’t magically spawn as drug addicts.
They chose that life. And they drive the demand.
I am from a third world hellhole and I find it sad that people here can’t just accept personal responsibility. We didn’t even have running water. Instead of doing drugs we chose to persevere and try.
Here you have public libraries with hella resources and so many charities and public services. I mean there’s medi-cal in California and programs for basically everything. I sometimes volunteer at a food bank and they give out free meals..
Same
Funnily enough, I don't imagine there are many Honduran drug dealers in the kitchens, soccer fields, farms, and home depots where ICE is focusing their efforts these days.
Its all fucking performative.