Cinci-
What is the "outside of the box" thinking concerning current Rx drugs dispensed by licensed practitioners out of legal pharmacies? Should these be legalized to sell in 7-11's or should the current illegal drugs be controlled as Rx drugs?
If the current illegal drugs are legalized, then why should the government provide the court system personnel (civil or criminal) and bureaucracy to administer counseling/enforcement/institute fines/etc that you indicated the need for in your earlier posts ?
Should people on drugs be allowed to access our government social service programs such as welfare, food stamps, loans, subsidized housing, etc?
Can employers in your ideal world refuse to hire druggies?
Again I said earlier even before you posted the following,
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Originally Posted by cinci
"I tend to think of someone sitting on the porch getting high and watching the sunset or smoking a joint at a Buffet concert
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... based on your idea of drug users, it is obvious to me that you need better SA on exactly who it is in the prisons creating all the overcrowding, and where they come from, how they got there, and what they were doing to actually land their butts in prison. Before I started working for the DoD, I worked in a state prison for three years and NEVER met an inmate that was incarcerated long term for being an occasional dope head at a jimmy Buffet concert ...
All of the druggies that you conveniently describe as the average or standard druggie in your legalization argument, already receive the court mandated rehab treatment , pay fines, and get probation in the current system. They are not the ones who are being locked up for 20 yrs on a marijuana charge. To "think of someone on a porch or at a concert" as your basis for legalization is a dramatic oversimplification of the problems and consequences of drug use and abuse.
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I would be careful about calling out the QP's on this site concerning your little trolling attempt with your example of the retired SF soldier smoking dope.
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Originally Posted by CINCI
Jack or AM may think of crackheads pulling stick ups and doing drive bys. Half a dozen QPs have responded since I posted about "SF guys who retire, grow their hair, buy a Harley, and start smoking dope" without commenting on this. Is that because they don't see this as a problem? Don't think it's realistic? Think different rules should apply?
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You are lucky nobody delivered the response that a little quip like yours usually initiates when someone tries to instigate personnel on this site.