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Re: the subject of my above message, it is important to mention that the heroin addict I referenced became a thief (burglar) because there was no legal, affordable way to satisfy his compulsive habit. The same circumstances apply to a substantial percentage of convicted felons. This fact, combined with the cost of funding the totally counterproductive drug war represents the waste of trillions of taxpayer dollars.
Switzerland and The Netherlands have decriminalized heroin, which is now available to addicts at government supervised clinics along with needles and syringes. I don't recall the specifics regarding cost but I know that the actual cost/value of an average dose of heroin in U.S. dollars is about fifteen cents! Syringes cost a quarter and needles are a dime.By your own admission, you just said your friend was lured into criminal activity because his need to supply his drug habit. If we made drugs legal, he still would have needed money for his habit. Just because it's legal doesn't mean it's free.
Portugal legalized all drugs about two years ago. The result thus far says you're mistaken.If recreational narcotics were made legal, we would only have more drug addicts.
If clean, measured heroin doses were available at an approved distribution center he would not have overdosed. The quality of street heroin is a major cause of heroin-related problems.More people on our social programs, more people victims of crimes, more people dying like my cousin's son did this past summer from an OD of heroin.
The drug war is a fiasco. It solves or contains nothing. Drugs are more available today than they were when Reagan escalated Nixon's folly -- and they cost less. Anyone who wants to buy drugs can find a supplier. And if Supplier A is busted, Supplier B steps right up. If Supplier B is busted, Supplier C steps up. And that goes right down the line from C to Z.The war on drugs is only there to help contain the problem--not solve it. Going the other way would only make things worse.
After about a year, his friend asked if he knew anybody that sold coke. As it happened he did have another friend that would sell drugs on the side. He set them up to meet at his home. After the sale, he heard his door being knocked down, people crawling through the window yelling "POLICE DON'T MOVE." His buddy was an undercover cop. They used my friend to get to the guy they were really after--the pusher.
He didn't spend any time in jail but as you would expect, he now has a criminal record just for setting the deal up. He wasn't even involved in drugs himself. He's a beer man like me.
If recreational narcotics were made legal, we would only have more drug addicts. .
After about a year, his friend asked if he knew anybody that sold coke. As it happened he did have another friend that would sell drugs on the side. He set them up to meet at his home. After the sale, he heard his door being knocked down, people crawling through the window yelling "POLICE DON'T MOVE." His buddy was an undercover cop. They used my friend to get to the guy they were really after--the pusher.
He didn't spend any time in jail but as you would expect, he now has a criminal record just for setting the deal up. He wasn't even involved in drugs himself. He's a beer man like me.
So your friend arranged a coke sale in his own house.? Doesn't sound so innocent to me. Or was it the coke dealer's house.?
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Anyone convicted of a crime of violence or who is not a citizen of the United States should NOT be permitted to purchase a firearm or vote under any circumstances, ever.
Ffederal law says anyone with a felony conviction cannot have a gun and a felony is defined as any crime for which you COULD (not did but could) have gotten a year or more in prison. That is an extremely low bar and should be raised to 5 or maybe 10 years.
This would make a good negotiating point. The right could say "Okay we will extend criminal background checks to private sales if you accept raising the felony definition to 10 years."
that' part is already the law[
Anyone convicted of a crime of violence or who is not a citizen of the United States should NOT be permitted to purchase a firearm or vote under any circumstances, ever.
Why do you believe that's true? If drugs were legalized would you rush out and start using heroin?If recreational narcotics were made legal, we would only have more drug addicts. .
Prolly true. Look at booze - it's legal and it causes more problems than coke and heroin combined.
that' part is already the law[
Anyone convicted of a crime of violence or who is not a citizen of the United States should NOT be permitted to purchase a firearm or vote under any circumstances, ever.
No it isn't. You can beat up some guy in a bar and get off with misdemeanor assault. It's a crime of violence and you may even do up to a year in prison, but your gun rights are intact. Same with DUI which is usually a misdemeanor and is a violent crime too.
And - most states let felons vote.
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Anyone convicted of a crime of violence or who is not a citizen of the United States should NOT be permitted to purchase a firearm or vote under any circumstances, ever.
that' part is already the law
