formerkywrestler

That's funny and awesome.

MJ's drinking early.

So you wouldn't be betting on the Colts you'd be betting on Indianapolis?

Glad I asked. I totally read it wrong. To the point, I agree with you. It's beyond comprehension.

I get it. I really do. I'm not sure exactly how the legality would work. Marijuana, absolutely. It should be sold wherever booze is. Past that, there needs to be a legal way to buy other drugs. I'm not sure what that is and I agree on "harder" substances that probably doesn't need to be at your local convenient store. There can be places where these drugs are available and all the extraneous death and violence that comes from the black market and illegality of the drugs can be combated in this way. We won't stop drugs from coming in, this much I know. But we can work to curb OD's from the unknowns, keep the violence down -- just look at Prohibition, and stop flooding our jails with non-violent drug offenders.

Can you expound? I'm not positive I'm following.

1,000,000% agree with that. The unknowns are what are causing the OD's.

I'll wave it on other things too. This just happens to be the subject we are discussing.

My ultimate solution would be to legalize all drugs. The money we are spending to fight the War on Drugs would then be used for treatment and rehabilitation. We would also stop paying private prisons to house non-violent drug offenders. Also, the billions we currently dump on the War on Drugs could be funded by the taxes off the legal market.

...two wrongs don't make a right.

It's hard to do a worse job than he did.

You figure something out. Once we start standing by and watching people die we've lost our humanity...

Insanely. Right there with dry counties.

I've said it to members in private but the one thing about the current heroin epidemic are the demographics are changing. White kids in the suburbs are dying. If anything will cause us to change our course of action, it's that.

This would be great. But a lot of money is made from keeping people incarcerated.

In short, we've spent a lot of money and a lot of effort on the notion that we can prevent drugs from coming into this country. In comparison we've spent very little money and effort towards the notion that a) we cannot prevent them from entering this country and b) addiction is a disease. When I say legalize it, make no mistake, it's not giving up. It's trying to fight the problem in another way. Tying to prevent it from getting to the point where we are so "exhausted" that we are willing to watch people die. I don't have all the answers but I know two things: 1. Addiction IS a disease. 2. We aren't keeping drugs out of this country.

I would agree with something like this.

At some point life is going to hit you and things won't be so easy and this obvious sheltered view on the world will cause you to change. Watching people die is never a "good thing". Even worse when something can be done to reverse it.

We've spent billions and billions to get to here:

I just wish all the money we wasted on The War on Drugs was spent on trying to prevent a fourth strike. Legalizing the drugs and work harder at prevention and treatment. Like it or not, addiction is a disease.

Are you saying he is still in the country stealing cars? Or he stole a car to get out of the country? Or something totally different?

Working from home.

They also cast The Mother of Dragons in an undisclosed role.

Well...they are in the news.

I feel ya Baby J!