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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m not for decriminalizing drugs but I think addiction should be dealt with medical intervention. Criminal intervention isn’t working. America spends like $100 billion on illegal drugs; clearly “Just Say No” and police aren’t making a dent. We waste a lot of time and money on people who choose to destroy their lives with drugs. What’s your solution?[/quote]
Did you even listen to the podcast or read the article?[/quote]

I did read the article. As I stated, I don’t think drugs should be decriminalized. The War on Drugs didn’t work nor did decriminalization. I think conservatives are just for putting people into jail so you don’t have to see them (homeless drug addicts). But we have too many criminals in jail and no one wants to be a corrections officer.

Currently, nothing is working! So what’s the controversy in my posts?![/quote]

So if "nothing is working," why are you upset about going back to the status quo?[/quote]

Because our jails are full and there is a hiring crisis for correction officers. Why do you care if people overdose in jail vs outside of jail?[/quote]

It should be obvious why it's preferable to have something ugly and traumatic like overdosing happening where there's a small/contained audience versus out on the street in front a broad, public audience that includes children......Common sense really is not common.[/quote]

We don’t have enough people willing to work in the prisons. Overcrowding is an issue and it create serious risk. There is no more room in jail. I’m not arguing for decriminalizing drugs. I don’t think pot should be legal because the rates of psychosis among teenagers have skyrocketed in areas where they have legalized pot. We have arrived at a situation where we can’t keep incarcerating people because States are unwilling to increase the pay of correction officers to hire more (although I’m unsure increasing pay would improve hiring because of demographics) and improve prison conditions.

You keep spouting your common sense BS but I would say you have zero because you look at just one tiny aspect of a problem. We have a problem for a variety of reasons! Saying we need to go back to throwing folks in jail is absurd because it doesn’t address the problems we have with that scenario.

…AND I’m not even going to discuss the fact that police officers also face critical shortages right now![/quote]

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