2007-02-18 12:32:49 · 8 answers · asked by ace 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Why would you want to always, be looking over your shoulder !
2007-02-18 13:00:35 · answer #1 · answered by 520 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Poor Education - Low Economic Growth - Poor Public Health - Poverty - Drug Related Crime
The bottom line is this, everyone wants to earn a living. When a student gets a poor education - even if he/she does finish high school, they often cant find employment. The two prevelent choices left are to either go join the army or sell dope.
If you can improve education, bring in small business - eventually larger businesses- you can vastly improve public health, thereby, illiminating the dominance of drugs on the community.
Sentencing needs reform too. Is it fear if a kid who gets caught with a joint be thrown in prison for up to 10yrs? Representation in the courts needs to be met, so kids are not left to make all the vital legal choices themselves.
So the solution to drug crime is this: fix education; attract business; improve hospitals and overall healthcare; and reform the legal system, it is possible to irradicate drug crime dominance.
2007-02-18 12:55:25 · answer #2 · answered by cantor85 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Make drugs readily available. Make sure they're clean. Let the gov't produce and sell. Build schools with billions in profits. Build a health care program that wouldn't let anyone down including addicts. Cartels will disappear and drug related deaths would dissolve significantly. Possibilities are endless. Make money instead of spending it. Save lives don't take them.
2007-02-18 12:59:56 · answer #3 · answered by me420LoTs 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We need to rethink the whole concept of criminality and drug possession/abuse. Current anti-drug laws don't work.
In the case of marijuana in particular, legalization would help cut down substantially on crime. The problem is not the drug itself but the laws that make it illegal. Like alcohol during Prohibition, the cure is worse than the disease.
Another problem to consider is that most drug abuse is due to doctor-prescribed medicine. Elvis Presley was murdered by his doctors, yet no one was ever arrested or charged in his death.
2007-02-18 12:43:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
People caught in drug related crimes should be punished!
2007-02-18 12:36:25 · answer #5 · answered by Starla_C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If they made all drugs legal, there would be a hell of lot less crime.
2007-02-18 12:41:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is an unfortunate product of prohibition and poverty?
2007-02-18 12:37:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm against it.
2007-02-18 12:44:38 · answer #8 · answered by TLBFH 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋