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Originally Posted by RageCash-Ben
One slight problem with that theory Robbie. Drugs hurt alot of people other than the user. Ask any cop and they will tell you 95% of break and enters are committed by drug addicts who need cash to score.
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Cause and effect in my opinion. Making stuff illegal creates crime. Prohibition made the mafia into a monster. Drug laws create an illegal network of criminals. I'm not saying that assholes on drugs don't break into houses and steal shit. But how does making the drugs illegal HELP to stop that? It's happening now. Those same assholes are the people who have that addictive personality. They are going to be hooked on SOMETHING no matter what.
Me and you going out to a club and doing some bumps or smoking a joint isn't hurting anybody. Yet WE go to jail when caught. Meanwhile that drug addict that is breaking into people's homes doesn't give a shit. He was going to be addicted to SOMETHING no matter what.
I have an alcoholic in my family, and I'm sure many of you have witnessed them as well. And this person has also been addicted to prescription pain killers and diet pills. He also smokes like a fiend, ran up a huge phone bill a few years ago with those 1-900 sex lines, and loves to gamble.
He has pretty much ruined his life from top to bottom. He's not the worst I've seen...some alcoholics REALLY hit bottom. But for every alcohol addict like that, there are millions of people who drink all their lives without becoming addicted to it.
Same with other drugs. Some people are just born that way. And they are gonna become drug addicts, ruin their lives, and commit crime to steal money. That's just the way it is. The govt. can make a million laws (and they have) making every goddamn thing in the world illegal and it STILL won't stop the addictive people from doing what they want to.
The only people who suffer are the majority of us who are forced to either lead a life full of nothing but "G rated" fun OR are forced to break idiotic laws every damn time we want to have some fun and blow off some steam. Sucks.
