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Originally Posted by BlackCrayon
How can you even compare the two? People who use drugs are abusing their own bodies. Are you gonna lock someone up for attempted suicide? No. You get them help. Thats what addicts need, help. Prison isnt' a deterant, if it was there wouldn't be millions locked up. Murderers spend 15-25-life in prison for taking someones life. Its not comparable by a long shot.
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This is why I do not bother arguing with people who view drug use as a "crime." They simply do not have the mental capacity to even begin to grasp the idea that "drug use is a public health issue, not a crime." They cannot even begin to understand the concept of liberty or justice.
Drug use is a public health issue, not a criminal matter
If drug abuse is a crime, then alcoholics should be jailed too. Heroin addicts have methadone clinics to keep them loaded. Why not just jail every person who is addicted to anything?
There is no need to argue with these people, theyll never understand.