A profit from people that don't have a pot to pee in really! Treatment, jail, lawyers, medical care cost the abuser pays nothing! The best they can do is put a lean on their property for legal fees but they have little to no property so the County/State eats that bill.


The cost of a murder trail alone can cripple a small County and the accused won't pay a penny!

I agree,Lawdog. The taxpayers suffer for poor policy. Change the policy.

I don't think the percentage of people addicted to drugs and/or alcohol has ever changed much throughout history. Demographics change but there's always going to be a percentage of any population that is, for whatever reasons, going to be predisposed to addiction to mood-altering drugs, including alcohol.

Religions and governments have been trying to stop drug and alcohol abuse for centuries with little or no success.

Until you spend several hours sitting a few feet from a 2 year old that was kicked to death to preserve the chain of custody until the State DCI shows up then see the photos being taken of a child bruised head to toe. You will never understand the real victims.

The ironic part is the child killed that his mother had this child in custody also and is in prison for abusing the kids of the first mother, so this child was the child of the 2nd woman he hooked up with and she had the her own child before the 3rd woman went to the pen continuing the cycle. Guess were that 2nd child will end up when it gets out of the hospital!

When you find the parents of a young child wasted at 3 in the afternoon and that kid has not been fed for 3 days and the mothers only concern is to get possession for the drugs in the house before we find them it's hard to see them as a victim in those cases. A bug filled house with no sink even in the kitchen to wash dishes the same people that think they are a victim and smile as the get a PR bond like they are winning like Charlie Sheen!


What I see and what you see are not the same thing often !

It isn't a matter of perception, or what circumstances one sees. It is a matter of realizing what government policies have been put in place that are causing more harm than good and working to change them. There is no shortage of absolutely criminal policies that were enacted with the best of intentions. The problem is government policy isn't judged by outcomes, but by intentions.

That is my perception. Criminalizing drug use has made societal problems worse.

Your in such a hurry to blame the Government that you are so bias about you might be missing the other points being made the same programs do help some and keep many alive but if they won't help themselves what it the alternative I'd like to hear it!


You see the happy drunk and I see his wife after he gets home and works her over, 2 different views of the same person sometimes!

I believe in limited government. The feds have no business in healthcare, rehab or outlawing drugs. States have the right to, I suppose, attempt to do these things. However, a 50 year experiment with government of all levels meddling in this issue leads me to believe they are a lot more of the problem than the solution. Sure, there are some aspects of some programs that do provide a service. The cost of those services is high due to government inefficientcy and incompetence and would be much better provided by private charity and private business. The government meddling blocks these private charities from doing well.

The honest are sucking the hind teat.

Interfering with a persons death wish should be illegal.

Most addicts and alcoholics don't have a death wish. Most wish for the next drink or high. Many wish to get sober/straight but don't have the means to do it.

Legalized drugs would mean more addicts which would be more problems that come with drug abuse.

Do you think that there a higher percentage of alcoholism today compared to Prohibition?

yes sir how many people do you know that want to smoke meth but don't because its illegal?

The problem starts before meth Danny. Better question would be how many would smoke weed if it was legal.

anybody that wants to smoke marijuana already is too. though I cant see what one has to do with the other. its probably beer that's the gateway drug. most people drink alcohol first

From what I have heard legalization of weed in Colorado has caused more problems than it has fixed.

From what I have read of the legalization of pot in CO those biggest complainers are those who see a continuation or worsening of the black market. This, in my opinion, is due to liberals love affair with taxes. Their big dreams of funding the government on the back of a plant were not realized. They created a bureaucratic rats nest of licensing, taxes, ECT ECT. It should be no surprise that people side step these inconveniences.

Your exactly right Finn. Untaxed marijuana is very popular. Reminds me of the love affair many have with untaxed whiskey. The upside is many people are obeying the law and paying the tax. A lot of the homeless that migrated in for the dope are leaving CO now that its legal in CA. No hard winters in SOCAL

Opiod overdoses lessened after weed legalization, so that's something.