2007-03-22 11:11:22 · 6 answers · asked by ? 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Because the current law doesn't make that kind of distinction.
And our society often seems more concerned with what people choose to do with their own bodies than what violence they choose to inflict on others.
2007-03-22 11:15:46 · answer #1 · answered by coragryph 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
What i might prefer to work out is all prisons and penitentiary run like Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona's Maricopa County runs his penitentiary. penitentiary or reformatory is meant to be a punishment, not a trip like maximum jails and prisons are. yet I do consider you that those unlawful drugs might desire to be made criminal and relatively taxed via the government. the U. S. might shop billions of greenbacks spent in this stupid so observed as conflict on drugs that doesn't do a ingredient to decrease the sale of unlawful drugs. it would additionally shop billions extra via not having those 1000's of 1000's in prisons for minor drug offenses. No, it does not make a u . s . of drug abusers. Like while alcohol replaced into made criminal back, human beings claimed it would purely make a u . s . of drunks, yet that did not take place, nor might the legalization of medicine make a u . s . of drug abusers.
2016-10-19 09:08:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree somewhat with the first guy.. but heres the thing. Its still the law not to do drugs whether you are hurting yourself or others.. and breaking it will put you in jail or prison regardless of how non violent the person is.
2007-03-22 11:19:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They should send them to rehab. Drug addiction shouldn't be a crime its a sickness. The jails and prisons are too over crowed. The system should stop throwing everyone in jail to fix problems. If they screened them and put them in rehabs and mental hospitals, the jails wouldn't be as crowded.
2007-03-22 11:28:01 · answer #4 · answered by Isabella 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a form of punishment. Otherwise we could just send 'em to Sandals for five-to-ten.
2007-03-22 11:19:21 · answer #5 · answered by dBalcer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because every crime, whether you think it's big or small, deserves time!!! It has nothing to do with violence. Bank robbers, prostitutes, all deserve jail time for crimes they commit.
2007-03-22 11:22:17 · answer #6 · answered by Farmwife 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋