Bill, frankly I agree there probably will never be a fantastic solution to eliminating drugs, but my statement was more or less a grand sweeping statement I have no way of enforcing. ;)
rg2 On 4/12/08, Bob Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill, > I don't know. > Wasn't how we got into this problem with Meth spread by it's easy > availability? > Don't we need somebody to stand up and say 'That stuff is no good for you!' > I think the young, the weak, and the unhappy/wrestless are falling victim. > I'd like that to slow down and not happen. > It's easy to say what we are doing is wrong, but harder to suggest > positive solutions. > Regards, Bob S. > > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 8:52 PM, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Rebekah" > > Subject: Re: Faces of meth images > > > > > > > wow, that's crazy. I feel so bad for people that get trapped into > > > stuff like that. I've never been much interested in illegal drugs. > > > Honestly, I once tried weed in college because everyone seemed so > > > obsessed with it, and it seemed "safer" than other things I could have > > > tried. I came away with the decision that it was definitely not worth > > > it and I'd rather eat ice cream, which is much more legal ;) > > > Addicting recreational drugs are so unnessary and should be completely > > > banished from the planet. > > > > I listened to a documentary about cocaine addiction a few years ago. The > > fellow being > > interviewed was of the opinion that banning drugs is a fools game (look how > > successful your > > country's "war on drugs" has been), in that all it does is give the banned > > substance a cachet > > value which makes it more enticing, and increases secondary crime, since > > the price of the > > product goes up with the risk factor. > > In a nutshell, banning drugs, be it meth, coke, marijuana or alcohol has > > little negative effect > > on consumption, but has a tremendous positive effect on crimes like break > > and enter, armed > > robbery and murder, as the addicts will tend to do whatever they need to do > > to feed their > > addiction. > > OTOH, if you decriminalize the stuff, the risk factors of production and > > selling go down a lot, > > the price goes down a lot, addicts no longer need to be marginalized into a > > criminal element > > that may be very violent and abusive (yer basic street whore is often dead > > before she hits 30), > > and since you are no longer building jails to hold the people you have > > criminalized > > unnecessarily, you have a lot more funds for treatment programs to help > > people get off whatever > > is jonesing them to death. > > > > What we are doing now isn't working, and will never work. The choice we > > have is to continue > > playing the fools game or try a different approach, perhaps finding > > something that will work. > > > > William Robb > > > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > > follow the directions. > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
