----- Original Message ----- From: "Gonz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2008 6:52 PM Subject: Re: Faces of meth images
> Unfortunately, because addiction is something no one can control once > they fall into it, legalizing it only enables the addicts to get it > cheaper. It still destroys their lives, and they cant escape it. > Yes, legalizing it would save the government alot of money and jail > space, but people who have the tendency to bungee jump into anything > new and exciting are still going to be the ones trying this stuff and > getting hooked. And treatment only seems to help for a while, pretty > soon the powerful call of the addiction causes them to lapse back into > their old habits again. The recidivism rates are very high. The > Danish have been undergoing a grand social experiment since the 70's > to decriminalize drugs and recently the percentage of people addicted > to hard drugs has risen quite a bit. They are now looking at going > back to criminalizing it to some degree, as their experiment has not > seen the results they were looking for. See > http://www.drug-rehabs.org/articles.php?aid=434 . > That report seems to indicate that cannibis use in Denmark dropped by 1% between 1994 and 2000 (they seem to have lost interest in tracking numbers after that), and they managed to come up with some new math that indicated increases from 1% to 2% (in people who try hard drugs) is a 5x increase. I didn't really see anything in there that indicated going back to the bad old days of social manipulation by jailing people, though I did find a couple of citations elsewhere indicating some problems with Christiania, including some typical police goonism, although there was certainly trouble in paradise. Fun stuff, but they lose credibiltiy by being dishonest. Drugrehab.org seems to be based in the USA, and is sponsored by something called grassroots.org, which sponsors a whole host of very right wingding groups. I suspect that they have an agenda. Anyway, if jailing people was the answer, both of our coutries should have no crime problems at all. 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.
