People do die from overdosing on illegal drugs. And Dealers know this to.
2007-01-15 22:23:49 · 7 answers · asked by kitkat1640 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Because the choice and the risk was always with the person that took the drugs.
If you bought a friend a bottle of asprin and subsequently found they were used to overdose, could you be charged with attempted murder?
The tobacco companies came unstuck because it was established that they misinformed people concerning the risks of smoking.
A drug dealer may illegally supply drugs but that is all he/she is guilty of unless you can prove the drug was stonger or contaminated in a way that could cause death outside the drig users normal mode of use.
Yes, its sick I know.
2007-01-15 22:36:22 · answer #1 · answered by philip_jones2003 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Change poverty and drug use issues for the little guy and you will stop it. Give them a better life by giving them a better opportunity to feel good about themselves and do better things and more of the right things the right ways so that they can get ahead not stay stuck in the systems that be.
The little people need to stand up together and say no more that must be a grassroots movement. But that other change needs to start at the top not at the bottom in some ways, and that is why it doesn't stop because no one does anything to the big major dealers and pushers because they have enough of the half truths and escapes to make the little guy think they are the ones to look up to and be like, like the drug companies and NAMI or the wealthy that say they don't have enough and have heard working mentalilities sitting at those desk all day while the little people are sweating for them.
People need honest lives and they need honest work and pay and benefits. People need to feel like they are doing good not bad, hurting the little people is always what those in powers ideas have been about even if they know well how to make it look just the opposite and that is for control issues, but hurting the little people does not help change things. Adding stress to stress does not help.
Do you know what really controls this? Psychiatry and the medical feilds, it puts people in positions where they feel like some thing is terribly wrong with them and they need help and then they are the rescuers. They use scare tactics, and then they are the deliverers from evil. It is not right and it must change.
2007-01-16 07:33:59 · answer #2 · answered by Friend 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not think so. Penalties, including the death penalty, are not detterents to crime. This is well established by noted criminologists and statistics bear it out. The only thing that will change the criminality involved in drugs is the legalization and control of them. Anything short of that will perpetuate the current situation and even exacerbate it. But the US is at least a century away from such a pragmatic solution.
2007-01-16 06:32:11 · answer #3 · answered by emiliosailez 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think you are right to think like that. I agree with it all. Except No one has ever overdosed from Pot. But I do think it can shorten your life span and that should count for something! I stand corrected someone died from marijuana.
2007-01-16 06:30:18 · answer #4 · answered by Lisa 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it would be nice, but not practical. they make the choice to do drugs. if you did that, then you would go after car makers, tobacco, beer companies, and anyone else that makes a product that kills.
2007-01-16 06:31:10 · answer #5 · answered by Jen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our courts couldn't handle all the cases. Maybe they could after they stopped selling tobacco.
2007-01-16 06:33:29 · answer #6 · answered by merlin 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
People also die from driving cars...
It's a creative and thoughtful idea -- if you're thirteen.
2007-01-16 06:31:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋