Whos going to manage the expenses? Australians are already paying for drug addition: Robbery of homes and shops, mugging and hurting of randoms on the street, hospital beds for innocents who got hurt in the crimes, hospital beds for addicts who nearly killed themselves by injecting fakes, hospital beds for AIDS and other diseases spread by uncontrolled needle sharing, loss of loved ones to drugs and murders committed to conceal drug crimes, police funding wasted on chasing after these idiots, funding lifestyles in prisons. A bunch of free clinics is surely cheaper than all these hidden costs, I'd say.
Greens policy is more like a regulation of drugs than a legalisation of drugs actually. If you turn yourself in, they'll give you alternatives, placebos and rehab and only give you the real thing as a last resort. whats stopping them from commiting such crimes after government funded drug centres stop giving them supplies? Well, why rob Seven Eleven or attack a 20 randoms on the street to collect $1000 so that I can buy dodgy drugs off the black market or share a needle with God-knows-who, when I can just go back to the free clinic if my addiction comes back? The drug market would decline if addicts have free clinics, making drugs less available outside of clinics.
Imagine if your angelic son had his drink spiked. Would you prefer to see him receive the humane support and medical attention he needs, or see him condemned and imprisoned for an addiction that's not his fault? Drug addiction is an illness and should be treated as such. At least he could still go to school and look after his future with his addiction looked after by a clinic, instead of quitting school to spend his whole life robbing people, running away from cops, or rotting away in a prison. As for prisons, drugs are smuggled into prisons anyway so any funding spend on prison rehab is pretty much wasted. At least with free clinics, addicts can continue to go to school or work, instead of eating free food, watching free DVDs and sucking on drugs from the back door of the prison. A comfortable but very expensive prison lifestyle funded by taxpayers like you and me.
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Greens policy is more like a regulation of drugs than a legalisation of drugs actually. If you turn yourself in, they'll give you alternatives, placebos and rehab and only give you the real thing as a last resort. whats stopping them from commiting such crimes after government funded drug centres stop giving them supplies? Well, why rob Seven Eleven or attack a 20 randoms on the street to collect $1000 so that I can buy dodgy drugs off the black market or share a needle with God-knows-who, when I can just go back to the free clinic if my addiction comes back? The drug market would decline if addicts have free clinics, making drugs less available outside of clinics.
Imagine if your angelic son had his drink spiked. Would you prefer to see him receive the humane support and medical attention he needs, or see him condemned and imprisoned for an addiction that's not his fault? Drug addiction is an illness and should be treated as such. At least he could still go to school and look after his future with his addiction looked after by a clinic, instead of quitting school to spend his whole life robbing people, running away from cops, or rotting away in a prison. As for prisons, drugs are smuggled into prisons anyway so any funding spend on prison rehab is pretty much wasted. At least with free clinics, addicts can continue to go to school or work, instead of eating free food, watching free DVDs and sucking on drugs from the back door of the prison. A comfortable but very expensive prison lifestyle funded by taxpayers like you and me.