<< Now follow this Einstein: Unless the Govt. GIVES drugs away for FREE how will the junkies pay for them? They steal because they cannot hold a job or they are on some form of disability at the government?s expense.
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Are you trying to say that the whole "war on drugs" thing is to keep people from losing VCRs and jewelry? I don't think so. There's definitely a double standard at work here. Alcohol, for instance, is a drug. A legal drug, but a drug nonetheless. Thousands of innocent people die in in drunk-driving related incidents every year. Death of innocent people is much worse than having someone steal some crap from you. So, according to your logic, alcohol should be illegal too, since it's an indirect side-effect of alcohol being available (much as theft is an indirect side-effect of drugs being available). You could keep applying this same logic to hundreds of things in our society that in one way or another, indirectly have some negative side-effect. And before you know it, we need to outlaw everything. And it becomes a big mess.
Part of the cost of living in a free society is that you have to put up with some crap you don't like or don't agree with. I'd personally rather live in a free society that contains moderate amounts of crime and danger, etc, than live in an oppressive "big-brother" type society where every little thing could be strictly punished.
Take Singapore, for instance. It's illegal to chew gum there. And guess what? It's immaculately clean. But I sure as hell wouldn't rather live there than here. I'd rather step in gum every once in a while than have government officials going around hassling people for little chewy things they have in their mouths. That's not the kind of country America was designed to be. It's supposed to be a place where the government leaves you alone as long as you're not bothering anyone else. But it seems a lot of people don't want it that way. They want to have everything exactly the way THEY want it, and have no respect for other people's wishes.
If someone wants to sit at home and get high watching Scooby Doo and eating cereal, who cares?? If you want to crack down on stealing, get more patrol cops out there. Don't take some indirect, "six degrees of Kevin Bacon"-type of crime fighting where you try to stop other activities that may or may not be indirectly associated with the ones that you really want to stop. It's ridiculous.
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