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? Ok...that actually sounds very reasonable, and I will have to agree. As a response to this I would have to say, maybe enforce a non-incriminating approach to first time drug users, that way they are more inclined to turn themselves in after they are spiked/involuntarily drugged. However, there is still a distinction between recognizing the innocence of certain drug users and seeing the legalization of drugs as a whole.
In addition, A bunch of free clinics is surely cheaper than all these hidden costs, I'd say. I beg to differ. There will be immense costs associated with providing free clinics. The first couple things that comes to mind are:
Administration; Social, How would people feel about drug facilities around their neighbourhood? If they are placed in non-populated areas they are not easily-accessible, therefore it might take too long to reach when "it" kicks in. Property price declines in drug-related area are all costs to society, imagine suburbs labelled as drug towns because there are an inflood of drug users in their clinic. Legal(there will have to be new law/regulations introduced, because well, if people can smuggle drugs into a prison, surely they can bribe the free clinic workers to give them a bigger dose; Pharmaceutical, there will be new contracts to drug companies that produce free drugs. I am not sure how smoothly new drug production would commence as I am not aware of the nature of the drugs (Ie, whether production process could be easily modified to cater for these drugs); Security/Personnel for the facility;
It might seem as if I am taking words out of their context but quoting the whole sentence would have been too long, anyway consider. why rob.....when I can just go back to the free clinic if my addiction comes back? That is like....um....yeah. Seriously that has to sound wrong =(
But yeah, after having to think of arguments to retort I see how the Greens proposal makes sense and can work. However sometimes such policies are very difficult to implement, and people can misinterpret the goodwill of providing free drugs to addicts as an endorsement of a major social-problem.
And yeah...sometimes I argue for the sake of arguing =P
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Date: 2006-08-24 02:16 am (UTC)Ok...that actually sounds very reasonable, and I will have to agree. As a response to this I would have to say, maybe enforce a non-incriminating approach to first time drug users, that way they are more inclined to turn themselves in after they are spiked/involuntarily drugged. However, there is still a distinction between recognizing the innocence of certain drug users and seeing the legalization of drugs as a whole.
In addition,
I beg to differ. There will be immense costs associated with providing free clinics. The first couple things that comes to mind are:
Administration;
Social, How would people feel about drug facilities around their neighbourhood? If they are placed in non-populated areas they are not easily-accessible, therefore it might take too long to reach when "it" kicks in. Property price declines in drug-related area are all costs to society, imagine suburbs labelled as drug towns because there are an inflood of drug users in their clinic.
Legal(there will have to be new law/regulations introduced, because well, if people can smuggle drugs into a prison, surely they can bribe the free clinic workers to give them a bigger dose;
Pharmaceutical, there will be new contracts to drug companies that produce free drugs. I am not sure how smoothly new drug production would commence as I am not aware of the nature of the drugs (Ie, whether production process could be easily modified to cater for these drugs);
Security/Personnel for the facility;
It might seem as if I am taking words out of their context but quoting the whole sentence would have been too long, anyway consider.
That is like....um....yeah. Seriously that has to sound wrong =(
But yeah, after having to think of arguments to retort I see how the Greens proposal makes sense and can work. However sometimes such policies are very difficult to implement, and people can misinterpret the goodwill of providing free drugs to addicts as an endorsement of a major social-problem.
And yeah...sometimes I argue for the sake of arguing =P