Which is worse? Drug dealers or drug users?

Question

Any ideas on how to eradicate drug related crime in America?
The majority of crime in America is drug related. In my neighbourhood there is a resurfacing of gangs and drugs since people started coming back to the city and the surrounding area. What must be done to solve this problem? sometimes I feel like killing the junkies around my house so the dealers dont have a reason to hang around.
So, back to my question. which is worse, the drug dealer or user?

Or is it me? A potential pre-meditated murderer who is going to move away from the problem, rather than help find a solution.

Answer 1

Well, a sheep is not slaughtered unless there is someone who would eat its meat. ( i hope you understand the expression)

i would say drug users, because they are the one that created the market.

Answer 2

Of course the dealers are worse.

There is a solution to the problem. Drug legalization.

People are going to take drugs legal or not, they already are.

Legalization will put the dealers out of business along with their crimes including murders, fighting over drug turf.

The purity of the drugs would be guaranteed. Dozens of people in Chicago and New Jersey (same drug batch) overdosed on a mix of Heroin and a synthetic pain killer a few months back. That wouldn't have happended if they were legal.

The money saved from fighing the drug war would be huge. Just a little bit of that would equal millions of dollars. Money spent on education and drug treatment.

This won't happen though, because the politicians use the drug war as a campaign tool.

Answer 3

Junkies and dealers are generally victims of social breakdown. The sad thing today is that in most western democracies, the people we rely on to counter the issue are generally also a part of the issue, big money makes for corrupt politicians and police force, not all, but enough.

So to answer you initial question, which is worse..... the dealer, because they are aware of what they do and prey on the weakness of others, profiting at their expense.

To address the drug problem, the answer is actually quite simple.... remove the money from the equation..... allow junkies to register their addiction, then supply them what they need, free of charge, through community health centres, on a slow withdrawal program. This not only removes the profit making concept, but stops the cycle of enticing new users via the addicted. It also reduces community crime rates via theft and hold ups. It does not stop the recreational and designer drug use, such as ecstacy etc, but certainly quells the crack cocaine and heroine trade.

Answer 4

The users are pawns of the dealers. Law enforcment should use the users to get to the dealers. I've always been in fovor for making drug dealing a federal crime that can be punishable by the death penalty.

Answer 5

I've been in your place before. A couple years ago drug dealers moved across the street...the type of people that would show were mothers strolling the babies to teenage boys to business men and women. I took every plate number and emailed them to the police department, our neighbor starting taking pics of all the customers and making the drug dealers lives virtually impossible...there was a happy ending...2 years ago on xmas morning we awoke to screaming and looked outside and they had burned the house down to the ground, that was the happiest moment of my life lololol.....the city came out 2 weeks later and demolished the house and now it's a beautiful green vacant lot...now to answer your question..if there weren't drug dealers the drug users would be fewer..If they don't leave your hood, you need to get out of there..drug dealers are like cocroaches...when one family would move out another would move in and they were illegal, couldn't speak english, they were tatooed all over and skin headed....they were freaky

Answer 6

If most drugs were legal we wouldn't have so much drug related crime, and as shown with alcohol in the 1920s, usage didn't change much. The tax money collected could be used to educate and help users, and farmers would have the option of a cash crop that produces high grade fiber for cloth and rope as well as oil which can be used as bio-diesel.

Answer 7

Dealers

Answer 8

I think drug dealers are worse. There is more deviant thought that goes into that. Drug users are generally better people, they've just fallen into something due to lack of willpower. Think how much easier it is to feel sorrier for drug users vs. drug dealers.

Answer 9

Like the Majority Rules DEALERS because with them loser the rest would go away in time. The government is behind this to kill off all the human race lol

Answer 10

Well...its same like asking who came first...eggs or chicken? if there won;t b dealers there won't b drug users and vice-versa..but i guess the onus of all this falls on drug dealers..if they don't supply it from where wld drug users ve an access to it...but at end of the day it all boils down to one qn..who will bell the cat??

Answer 11

LOL, I find you interesting but asking a very sad question.

And though it is a very good question, I think that it is very hard to come up with a solution. Though I do not respect people that decide to waste away on drugs, I should not judge them.

Also I do not respect those who sell the drugs to the users so I would probably say therefore that they are equally as bad.

Yep that is my answer: