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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 972004" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>My tax dollars would be better spent allowing this woman to go onto some sort of medically supervised drug maintainence program, coupled with education and job training, rather than incarcerating her.</p><p></p><p>Odds are she is a felon because she (a) dealt drugs or (b) committed property crimes in order to support a drug habit.</p><p></p><p>Its not the drugs themselves that cause the criminal behavior...it is the <em>inflated black market cost </em>for those drugs that cause the criminal behavior. Take away the black market...allow that woman to register as an addict with a medical problem and get generic methadone or morphine under a doctors supervision from a pharmacy for $3 a day instead of on the street for $500 or $1000....and she will no longer <em>need</em> to commit crimes or prostitute herself in order to obtain that kind of money. Get her <em>out</em> of the criminal justice system and into a <em>medical</em> system for a <em>fraction</em> of the cost, both financial and societal.</p><p></p><p>Look at the narco-anarchy, violence, and corruption that plagues Mexico. The reality...is that it is nothing more than free market capitalism at work. Supply and demand. It is <em>our</em> money that corrupts their society, and <em>our</em> demand for illegal drugs that fuels the black market that they supply. Want to beat the drug cartels? Its easy....<em>undercut their price. </em>Put them out of business by offering their best customers (addicts) a cheap, LEGAL product at a <em>fraction</em> of the cost. What we are doing now simply fuels the violence and increases the profits to be made by giving the criminals a monopoly and allowing them to charge <em>whatever they want </em>for their product to customers with a <strong>medical condition </strong>(addiction) that compels them to do whatever they can to afford that product. </p><p></p><p>We have been beating our heads into the wall for years on this deal, and its not the wall that is bleeding.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 972004, member: 14668"] My tax dollars would be better spent allowing this woman to go onto some sort of medically supervised drug maintainence program, coupled with education and job training, rather than incarcerating her. Odds are she is a felon because she (a) dealt drugs or (b) committed property crimes in order to support a drug habit. Its not the drugs themselves that cause the criminal behavior...it is the [I]inflated black market cost [/I]for those drugs that cause the criminal behavior. Take away the black market...allow that woman to register as an addict with a medical problem and get generic methadone or morphine under a doctors supervision from a pharmacy for $3 a day instead of on the street for $500 or $1000....and she will no longer [I]need[/I] to commit crimes or prostitute herself in order to obtain that kind of money. Get her [I]out[/I] of the criminal justice system and into a [I]medical[/I] system for a [I]fraction[/I] of the cost, both financial and societal. Look at the narco-anarchy, violence, and corruption that plagues Mexico. The reality...is that it is nothing more than free market capitalism at work. Supply and demand. It is [I]our[/I] money that corrupts their society, and [I]our[/I] demand for illegal drugs that fuels the black market that they supply. Want to beat the drug cartels? Its easy....[I]undercut their price. [/I]Put them out of business by offering their best customers (addicts) a cheap, LEGAL product at a [I]fraction[/I] of the cost. What we are doing now simply fuels the violence and increases the profits to be made by giving the criminals a monopoly and allowing them to charge [I]whatever they want [/I]for their product to customers with a [B]medical condition [/B](addiction) that compels them to do whatever they can to afford that product. We have been beating our heads into the wall for years on this deal, and its not the wall that is bleeding. [/QUOTE]
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