Is there a way to genuinely reduce drug-related crimes?

Question

Just think how many crimes are drug-related.

Answer 1

Legalize drugs.

Answer 2

Don't think so, Juvenille crime is mostly related to drinking, and a lot of Adult crime is on harder drugs. They just swop one for another as they get older. I work within the court system so I have seen them. If Human Rights were taken away, then not letting drug addicts have kids would reduce the crime. But that will never happen. It is costing us a fortune as taxpayers!
Community Orders are a joke as a lot of them get breached.
Once a child comes from one of these families you have got to wait and see what they do. A lot of crime runs in families and they have no respect for anyone or any property.
People are too afraid or too apathetic to say anything to kids anymore like they used to. (sorry, if it seems like harking on 'the good old days!') Too worried they may have a knife, gun or damage your property.
Looks like Police are recruiting more Community Bobbies, maybe this will help, but it may be too late. Time will tell.

Answer 3

Decriminalize (not necessarily legalize) drugs. And shift the distributive mechanisms away from the thugs and blow Lords.

Some would claim that if this were done that we would have more kids using drugs. But consider the case of alcohol and tobacco. Both have been legal for some time (alcohol since the early 30's) and tobacco forever. The percent of the population that uses these has remained stable in the case of alcohol, and actually decreased with cigarettes. I say let's try it with certain illicit drugs. Some must continue to be illegal.

Answer 4

If drugs are legalized there's gonna be a bigger problem. Look at the drinking and driving problems we're having already and some one wants to put a dope head on the street behind the wheel of a 2,000 pound vehicle that can be turned into a weapon without thought? I'd call that a lack of common sense or not being able to look past their noses.
Put the users in rehab and clean them up. (Easier said than done, I know, but that should be the second step).
Shoot to kill all the suppliers. From the street dealer to over seas suppliers. Stop it at it's source and the 'down hill' effect will come into play. (You should act like they're cockroaches that have infested your home and get rid of the nest).
And you shouldn't have to shoot as many people as you think. Once they realize that you're serious about this, a lot will stop just to keep themselves alive.
That's the way I feel about it anyway.

Answer 5

Anyone caught in possession of any illegal drugs, should be given a year in prison. 365 days straight, no remission, no time for good behaviour, a full year. Release them after a year. If they are caught with drugs inside prison....the 365 days starts again. As soon as they are picked up...off to the clink, Build more prisons. If this started tomorrow people would soon realise that we are not messing about, and it may make the rest of them think about it.

Answer 6

Yes. Go back to the situation pre-1969 Dangerous Drugs Act & allow Doctors (not clinics only) to treat Junkies with what they need (opiates) and not the much more addictive but ultimately unsatisfying synthetic concoctions like methadone.

Answer 7

No. I don not. Marijuana is no the most dangerous drug that people are taking. People are dying and ruining the live of their families and themselves because of crack, heroin, meth and prescription drugs. I wouldn't say marijuana was America's real drug problem and it's legalization or illegalization won't stop people from doing drugs. But I do think that people who shouldn't be criminalized for doing drugs because I believe drug addiction is an illness. How are we helping drug addicts by arresting them putting drug charges on their records and keeping them from having a positive life after drugs? Most people with criminal records are more likely to reoffend. I think criminals are desperate people who are shut out from society and they end up back on the street doing drugs and getting arrested again. I think the war on drugs is failing so many people because it's not helping them get better. It shames them and then throws them away. I also believe that we need drug-education, more than "Just SAY No", we need to tell children and teens the truth about drugs and let them make sound decisions. Quit thinking if you tell them about drugs they'll rush out do them. Assume children are smart enough to think for themselves if giving true knowledge. Obviously the drug-education we have is not working and needs to revamped if Americans are doing 40% of the worlds drugs. American has failed its citizens in that way. Marijuana is already banned in most states in U.S. and people still getting their hands on it but to me it's not the worst drug. It was banned before the 2012 election year. Marijuana doesn't make anyone smarter or put them up their with Einstein but it's the least harmful. I am more worried about people getting behind the wheel of cars and driving drunk and killing people (39% of traffic fatalities a year are due to drunk driving). I think that alcoholics who drive drunk immoral. But alcohol is not banned. Children are left without their moms and dads because their parents choose to do crack, meth or heroin over taking care of them. That's more immoral. People are dying overdoses from heroin (6500 a year) and prescription drugs (100,000 a year!). That's really sad. 900,000 people die a year of alcohol and substance abuse or prescription drug overdose and none of those drugs is marijuana. To me marijuana is not the cause of the crime so banning it won't do much.

Answer 8

Yes! Stop 'gloryfying' the use of drugs on T.V So many 'yoof culture' shows think it is cool......and seeing that '****' Docherty on the news every other day running at photographers and threatening them on his way out of court doesn't help! Surely it's time He was put away for a while! At the moment he appears to the misguided as 'cool' because he always seems to get away with it!

Answer 9

I fully agree with George, Wheelie, and a few others there. Execution is one of the best solutions to this epidemic. They have the death penalty for drugs in most Asian countries like both of the Chinas, Mongolia, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, and etc give very lengthy jail sentence like in the US or they can give you the death sentence. Philippines also used to have the death sentence for drug posession and if you rape/kidnap a woman and a child. But their midget female president just abolished the death penalty thanks to the meddling of the Catholic Church. However, the Philippines can always bring back the death penalty once she leaves office. This is twice that country put a moratorium on the death penalty.
http://www.philsol.nl/A00a/Pahra-deathpenalty-mar00.htm
The US actually has the death penalty for drug smuggling/possession, but they haven’t yet used the law:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_issues_of_cannabis
Drugs are the center of all crimes along with greed for money. I’m from Chicago, and in this city we get close to 500 cases of murders/homocides, street gang warfare, thousands of cases of robberies and home break-ins every day. Majority of these cases are related to drug abuse. Chicago is about the same size as Singapore and they hardly have hard cases of these crimes like in Chicago, Detroit, the southern Gulf states, California, and Southwest states because have the death penalty for drugs. If crimes like in the US and Latin America happened over there it would be big news to them. There aren’t a lot of hard crimes in Asia compared to parts of the US, Mexico, and South America. Singapore just executed a Vietnamese kid from Australia who was trying to smuggle drugs from Vietnam to Australia. Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and parts of Southern China is the source of drugs in that area of the world like what Mexico and South America is to the US. That’s why those latter Asian countries have the death penalty and lengthy sentences for drugs.
The only drug that I’m in favor in legalizing is marijuana if it’s for medical use and if a medical professional or law enforcement officer observes the use of it by the patient. I’m not pro-marijuana like some pot head idiots here that will respond to you, but I know marijuana will help relieve pain for many sick people. I’ve seen some few terminally ill patients who are allowed to use marijuana and it improved their lives (you can eat cannabis btw).
If you want to do illegal drugs go to Canada, Mexico, South America, Netherlands, and probably other parts of Europe that legalize some hardcore drugs there. But don’t do it in Asia. Otherwise you could regret for life (literally).

Answer 10

the only way is to legalise drugs this will reduce the price make it on a par with cigarettes and alcohol, as the drug is controlled the quality would also be controlled reduce deaths, the supply would become regulated and therefor the criminal element would be removed, as people could buy it on the high street it could be licensed.

The only problem is usage would increase

Answer 11

If you legalise drugs, you will still have to buy them so you will still have to rob to pay for your drugs. No one is going to give them to you on prescription, are they? I mean, we still have alcoholics even though it is quite legal to buy it.
I think public relations focusing on the backgrounds of the mules who risk their lives and freedom would educate people into the true cost of drugs. Would you shove something up your nose that came out of someone's bum????
People die to bring you your drugs. Drugs fund terrorists. We have a weapon, but it isn't used.