if courts gave drug dealers 30 years no parole do you think it would deter them?

Answer 1

if people that hurt & abuse children dont even get 30 years why the hell should drug dealers (who arent mentally sick people & not intent on harming anyone) get such harsh punishment & no parole!!?

Answer 2

It would only deter the one who got caught. Two or three new dealers would pop up within a matter of hours. I don't know what the answer is but I do not believe legalizing drugs is the answer. Perhaps making dealers pay back all the money that they got selling drugs to the people that were robbed so that the addicts could buy drugs. This would sharply reduce the profits.

Answer 3

Do these punitive sentences deter people from dealing drugs? Absolutley not! But stiff sentences do in fact help stop drug activity. Drug dealers and users don't have the foresight to look beyond today and are always out for a high, or quick money. They are so concerned with here and now they don't care about consequences of their actions.
So when they get busted 9 out of 10 times they will roll on up the line to the guy who really needs to be in prison.
But the problem with these liberal a@@ courts lately, in south west us at least, they see all drug offenses as addicts. I can buy 100 kilo's of coke from someone and his attorney can succesfully argue its for personal use and they are just selling a small portion to help support there own habit.
100 keys is an exaggerated amount but we had a girls attorney succefully argue that 2 lbs of crystal meth, packaged in 32 different baggies, and 5 lbs of weed were for her personal use and she wasn't dealing anything. She got put into a first time drug offender program that will leave here with no criminal history.
There are no consequences anymore, so who gives a care. I say if you can make yourself rich and there are no consequences for your actions...do it!! I'll support your decision to be a piece of dung 100%

Answer 4

No people live for the day, they always think they are not going to get caught. The big people in drugs would always have someone else willing to take the rap for them. Plus we do not have the room in jail for drug dealers. Confiscation of all financial gains might have more of an impact as even drug dealers have family's and nobody wants to be left with no home or money

Answer 5

Is any penalty ever a deterrent?
I've been representing criminals in court for ten years and few of them ever foresee the possibility of being caught, let alone punished for their offences.

There's no evidence that the death penalty was a deterrent to murder, so why should we think a long prison sentence would deter a would be drug dealer?

Try to imagine spending 30 years in jail......
You can't really do it, can you?
That's why "deterrence" doesn't work. So, in short, I doubt it.

Answer 6

A lot depends on the methods of enforcement. Going after the low end dealer is pretty much a waste of time.

Decriminalize drug use then heavily penalize those who deal them outside the law or use them in a way that harms others. You'll save money and have a far better chance of controlling drug use. The current system is an utter failure.

Answer 7

As much as I would like to think so - I am sure that they would get more monkies doing the runs for them - I wish I had an answer to stop the drugs from the top down - conscription would be a start but that still leaves the big boys able enough to get others to do their disgusting trade.

Answer 8

This would probably have a big impact. If you're only goal is to stop drug dealing, then maybe you should consider if the death penalty, or being hung-drawn and quartered would be a greater deterant.

But there is also the question of justice. We shouldn't throw away our sense of what is right and wrong, what is just, only to clear the streets of drugs. We shouldn't organise our justice system around our contempt for criminals, but around our respect for justice.

Answer 9

NO ,, we already have the largest prison population, per capita, in the entire world.

It has been that way since Ronnie Raygunz signed a ridiculous drug policy.

Strange how no President or other high ranking politician will get in line for a "drug Test" as fast as Sen Pelosi went after the biggest free jet she could get, at "our" expense.

Answer 10

No, because the money is still too good.

The only way to win the war on drugs is to diminish the profits reaped by people in the drug industry.

Legalize drugs, and the dealers will fade away...