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What the fuck is making it a crime again going to fix? What is going to suddenly work that isn't working now?
by henning 3y ago
What the fuck is making it a crime again going to fix? What is going to suddenly work that isn't working now?
- HDThoreaun 3y agoPeople doing heroin and meth in public are annoying. They're commonly violent too/. Making those drugs and doing them in public illegal allows society to remove those nuisances, at least temporarily.
- sowbug 3y agoWhy not criminalize violent acts instead? I don't care if the guy who attacks me is high or not, same as I don't care if the guy who didn't attack or bother me was high or not.
- astrange 3y agoSomeone smoking next to you is doing a violent act.
- HDThoreaun 3y agoIt’s not just violence. They’re also annoying in other ways like taking up the entire sidewalk and shitting on the street.
- sowbug 3y agoMy comment was slightly tongue in cheek. Most violent acts are already crimes. I haven't looked it up, but I imagine that loitering and defecating in public are as well.
- TylerE 3y agoIt's always struck me as sadly hilarious how the same crowd that's always shouting for drug laws is the exact same crowd that argues that stricter gun laws would increase crime and make the streets more dangerous.
- josephcsible 3y agoThe difference is that guns have some good uses.
- TylerE 3y agoSo do drugs.
- josephcsible 3y agoWasn't heroin one of the drugs they decriminalized? What good uses does it have?
- vkou 3y agoWhat good use does alcohol have?
- TylerE 3y agoStrong opioids are the only option that works for many people with chronic pain. In some countries (but not the US), heroin (technical name: diamorphine) is used for extreme pain, like late stage cancers. It truly is one of the most effective painkillers that exist - and it isn't unimaginably strong like fentanyl, so it's much harder to accidentally OD on when used medically.
- jeroenhd 3y agoArresting people and putting them in jail makes them leave the neighbourhood for a while. It doesn't solve the drug addiction problem, but it solves the feeling of unease and safety risks associated with being near drug addicts. Being the only place in the region where drugs can be abused free from meddling influence can also pull in addicts from surrounding areas, only increasing the problem.
- mimikatz 3y agoIt also forces them to get clean and give them another shot at sobriety.
- bregma 3y agoAre you under the misapprehension that drugs use is not rampant inside prisons?
- standardUser 3y agoPrison is not rehab. Do you want a massive tax increase? We would need one if we were to actually incarcerate drug users for the duration they need to become sober. And we would need to fund those prisons to a level wherein they don't make people more likely to break the law once they get out. And what about re-entry? It would take a lot of money to not dump former addicts back on the exact same street where they first became an addict. Their friends will be waiting! Besides, most states still jail people for petty drug crimes and they have been for 70 years. It doesn't work.
- Falmarri 3y agoYes, and now they have a criminal record AND a drug addiction. So much better and more likely they'll stay sober