Many call it a victimless crime and they never consider who pays for the services and hospital fees that are racked up every day by poor choices! Just seen one that is going to end up with a quarter of a million hospital bill or around that before it's all over maybe more! That bill will never get paid ever by that person and has already cost the system millions in services and aid costs already.


It's just going to get worse with the, (there are no consequences) thinking many have today!

Since drugs already won the war on drugs,maybe it's time for another declaration and a doubling down on dumb.

I think there would be fewer victims if all dope were legal again. By criminalizing it we have made the problems criminalization was supposed to alleviate worse. Not the least of which is organized, violent street gangs that exist solely to distribute drugs.

Addiction has NOT been reduced and the cost to families of dope fiends as well as every other tax payer are greater.

There will never be any progress made on harmful recreational drugs because the profit is to great. Illegal sales and distribution of narcotics is the last true capitalism and profits are incredibly lucrative. Rich get richer and addicts go to prison. Of course not until they get so desperate they end up arrested. Prison gets them healthy so when they are released they can provide the real outlaws with income for a few years again.

Saw where Sincinnati is running a free needle mobile truck for junkies!!! Also have narcan and a pitstop for them to shoot up and be monitored. We have kids and grown ups that do and or will contribute to society that can't afford life saving meds but we give scum free instruments to break the law. !!! I would say stand up and protest but if I did it that would be illegal. EVEN worse I would sound like a Dummycrat !!!!!

I was one who made a harsh comment about the loss of a loved one to herion. BUT you know what life ain't a picnic. If you try to be something other than a leech. People are not entitled to anything. Nothing is for sure.
People have to make choices. Does everyone deserve a second chance ? You bet!!! Its the third and forth chance I have trouble with..
But todays politicians feed off of peoples emotions. Oh yea remember when I said some people like to be a leech. How do politicians thrive. Heck their lively hood depends on what they can get from others !!!!

The only problem with that is they are all happy and care free but when they no longer have control it's up to everyone else to put then back together and maybe a small percentage see the light and the majority keep destroying everything in their path if it's theirs or not to destroy!

Sit down and figure what it cost to raise a child that is raised on aid his whole life, the cost of juvenile treatment for drugs or other behaviors, then adult incarceration all the time never being productive to society ever in that life.

I don't have the answers but this is what I see everyday!

Instead of working to decouple healthcare and it's associated 'society costs' from government, it is better to spend billions of taxpayer money on throwing them in prison AND pay for the associated health cost. Interesting policy. It hasn't worked for the last 50 years, but maybe this will be the year.