Quote (ofthevoid @ Nov 12 2019 09:27pm)

I'm increasingly shifting my opinion towards lowering drug sentencing laws. Personally i think usage of hard drugs should have reduced sentencing from what they currently are. I don't think hard drug use should be decriminalized but i do think the penalties should be significantly reduced. Honestly, from a taxpayer perspective, having a coke user spend years in prison does nothing but burden the general populace with a hefty cost. Why not reduce some of those sentences to essentially reflect time for them to get clean? I.e. heroin/coke/meth users found in possession be jailed between 30-180 days, regardless if repeat offenders. It's enough time for them to get clean while saving money for the taxpayer.

Oklahoma is going to save upwards 10 million for releasing these women. Props to the Republican governor for doing this.




https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/hundreds-oklahoma-inmates-will-be-released-monday-largest-commutation-u-n1076056

Quote (ofthevoid @ Nov 14 2019 04:21am)

Pretty broad question tbh.

Quote (lll420lll @ Nov 16 2019 10:21am)

I say kill all the hard drug addicts, save ALOT of money as a lot collect welfare and use WIC

Quote (Black XistenZ @ Nov 13 2019 01:30pm)

This is all easier said than done. Tons of people who develop substance addictions dont do so because of an isolated, singular trauma - they do so because their life sucks in general and/or they have no perspective and/or they live in broken, dysfunctional communities. Basically, changing the underlying issues of their addiction doesnt lie within their power in many cases.

Quote (sir_lance_bb @ Nov 16 2019 03:47pm)

Massive manufacturing/auto/factory industry falling apart in the rust belt and the current heroin epidemic isn't just a coincidence and then you combine this with Big Pharma/Doctors just prescribing opiates like tylenol for years and you end up with a crisis that is almost hopeless.

Quote (Thor123422 @ Nov 16 2019 10:46pm)

No

Quote (Surfpunk @ Nov 16 2019 08:59pm)

I don't think he's saying Tylenol is an opiate, but that opiates have been prescribed as if they were Tylenol.

Quote (Surfpunk @ Nov 16 2019 10:59pm)

I don't think he's saying Tylenol is an opiate, but that opiates have been prescribed as if they were Tylenol.