Do you think that the U.S. is to easy on the people who are killing each other? Should the cooks and dealers of meth spend life in jail? Only about 6% of users are able to walk away from the drug and not use again.
2006-08-29 14:11:31 · 7 answers · asked by luvtohateyou 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Some thing to think about a meth lab can be setup in a hotel room, or in a vehicle. The waste produced from the cooking process is Toxic Waste. So if you are a addict or not it does affect you.
2006-08-29 15:48:18 · update #1
Yes i think they should be punished more severe, not only users die of the drugs, people get killed over the drug, making the drug, and just being around the labs. Not only that, the chemicals arew highly explosive and pose a severe threat to the area around the labs.
2006-08-29 14:16:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I've thought about this issue a lot and I don't have an answer. The libertarian in me says that a person should have a right to put whatever he wants into his body whether it is good for him or not. If as a result he infringes on someone elses rights then punish him according to THAT crime, not what he took. But we all know it isn't that simple. In addition to killing outright, I think there are a lot of things wrong in this society because people lack good judgement and clear thinking....illegal drugs do effect attitudes in society. Additionally I feel very strongly about anything that harms a child and to my knowledge drug dealers don't give a damn about the age of their "customers". I have wondered about the idea of the government opening up their own "drug stores" and sell to certain adults what they think they "need". The reason being is that most illicit drugs are cheaply manufactured and that the government could produce and provide them for next to nothing. The idea would be to 1. prevent some junky from banging an old lady over her head to get her last two dollars in order to buy drugs and 2. to take the profit out of it for drug cartels and organized crime. This however has obvious problems. Could a government really supply anybody with a poison such as methamphetamine? Would making drugs available legally encourage more people to try them? So, while at first it seems like a good idea in some aspects, I don't feel at all comfortable advocating this. So what can we do? The war on drugs is obviously being lost....or at least not being won. Maybe a combination of a revised version of the above idea and stiffer sentences. So maybe we can come up with programs in which people who have been diagnosed as chemically dependent to narcatotics can be placed on a maintenance plan with government supplied medications of a narrower variety which would substitute for a wide range of addictions. Along with that would be greatly increased sentences for anyone dealing drugs....with a very limited number of chances to be rehabilitated and mandatory life sentences for repeat offenders or those selling to minors. This is the best I can come up with, and as I said I've thought a lot about this issue.
2006-08-29 14:53:41 · answer #2 · answered by RunningOnMT 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We need what the end of prohibition did for alcohol.
The war on drugs is total insanity, wasting huge amounts of money and not accomplishing anything, except fill up the jails with people that at best should go to rehab. And making criminals rich.
All the meth labs and cocaine mills would be out of business in a week if sanity prevailed in Washington, and the DEA people could be freed to take on actually productive jobs (which I know they would hate and they would fight such changes with all their power!!!)
2006-08-29 14:15:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
There is something terribly wrong with our drug laws. I'm beginning to think that we'd be much better off making drugs legal with prescriptions, taxing the sales and eliminiating the jailing of folks. That approach would free up billions of dollars of federal and state budgets. One problem would be that drug use might increase.
What we are doing now makes no economic nor legal enforcement sense at all.
2006-08-29 14:25:47 · answer #4 · answered by DelK 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you don't like drugs. Don't use them. Stop sending people to jail for enjoying something you don't. By the logic of the war on drugs, we should be able to send you to jail for walking on a public sidewalk.
Just because I don't like it.
2006-08-29 15:11:58 · answer #5 · answered by cat_Rett_98 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes. Drugs kill.
2006-08-29 14:15:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
If they're going to be effective, they'll have to be a LOT harder.
2006-08-29 14:22:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋