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The logic is that these hard drugs are so addictive that their users cannot stop themselves from committing crimes to acquire more of the hard drugs. Fat-rich f
by jimbob45 4y ago
The logic is that these hard drugs are so addictive that their users cannot stop themselves from committing crimes to acquire more of the hard drugs. Fat-rich food, cigarettes, and alcohol are several orders of magnitude less addictive than the hard drugs we're talking about. I think you're making a false equivalence here.
- Isinlor 4y agoThey can stop themselves, but they need help with quitting addiction, not punishment for their illness. Also, alcohol is one of the worst drugs, but it is legal. > In the early 2000s, the monetary cost of alcohol-related crime in the United States alone has been estimated at over $205 billion, more than twice the economic cost of all other drug-related crimes. > Alcohol is implicated in one quarter of all homicides globally. > A report released in 2001 showed that 80% of violent crime committed by young people in Estonia has been linked to alcohol abuse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol-related_crime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol-related_crime https://web.archive.org/web/20140504141105/http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/88/9/10-010910/en/ https://web.archive.org/web/20140504141105/http://www.who.in...
- hydrok9 4y agoHm, orders of magnitude less addictive sure, but still extremely difficult for people to stop (especially long-term), and very damaging to their own life and taxing on health systems.