No jail time for possessing any drug ever

[_moksha]

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/12 ... h-cocaine/

Let's see if any of the reliable media reports the same thing.

[_ajax18]

Let's see if any of the reliable media reports the same thing.

Or if they even report on it at all.

[_Dr. Shades]

I'd like to put a stop to people collecting a disability check for alcoholism now as well.

- Doc

So, by you quoting him and "signing" your name to it, that's your way of agreeing with the statement, . . . right?

[_moksha]

Let's see if any of the reliable media reports the same thing.

Or if they even report on it at all.

Reporting nonsense for partisan purposes is the stuff of Breitbart and not reliable media. If the above is true then they will report it. If the above is false, it will probably show up in a Trump tweet sometime in the future.

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

I'd like to put a stop to people collecting a disability check for alcoholism now as well.

- Doc

So, by you quoting him and "signing" your name to it, that's your way of agreeing with the statement, . . . right?

Are you serious, or are you being cheeky?

- Doc

[_honorentheos]

Mayor Pete came out a long time ago as being against criminalized drug possession and use while maintaining laws against selling drugs. His approach is to treat drug use as a condition that needs treatment rather than a crime that is resolved by rolling people into the prison system. Switzerland had a similar approach back in the 90's when I was there serving as a missionary. Ajax will be sad to hear it will still cost money, just aimed at treating and rehabilitating rather than incarcerating and recycling.

The question of how he views stolen prescription drugs under this approach is a good one that he could probably answer but I haven't seen it before. It seems to straddle the line between what would continue to be criminalized (it involves a crime separate from drug use in the theft of the drugs, which he isn't advocating getting rid of in any statements I've seen) and the person involved probably needing help more than punishment.

[_Dr. Shades]

Are you serious, or are you being cheeky?

- Doc

Either that, or you're quoting him in fear of him going back and editing the original comment later, perhaps?

[_EAllusion]

I'd like to put a stop to people collecting a disability check for alcoholism now as well.

You wrote your post anticipating that if drugs were legalized, then a huge, crippling % of the population would then spend their time unemployed, destitute, and living off of government benefits perpetually drunk or high. That alcohol is already legal and this isn't happening seemed to escape your attention. This is bizarre, because alcohol has been legal longer than you've been alive. While alcoholism does harm a % of the population, the legal sale and use of alcohol does not grind the economy to a halt with drunks living off of welfare. That's a very unpleasant lifestyle - difficult to maintain in its own way - and the vast majority of people avoid it.

There isn't even evidence that legalized drugs leads to more drug addiction, and even if it did, it doesn't follow that this leads to a greater % of people collecting government benefits, and even if it did, it doesn't follow that this would exceed the direct and indirect costs of of prosecuting prohibition of drugs. It's actually extremely implausible that legalization of drugs, like alcohol, hurts taxpayers more than keeping it illegal.

You're just off in a land of stereotypes. As previous posting indicates, you don't care that you live in an alternate reality devoid of facts. And because you dismiss out of hand what you believe for other reasons, there's not much to do but occasionally poke at it.

[Guest]

The real problem is that some people have more children on purpose just to get more welfare benefits and public housing.

[_DoubtingThomas]

It's actually extremely implausible that legalization of drugs, like alcohol, hurts taxpayers more than keeping it illegal.

Exactly!