What Do You Think About My Solution To The Drug Problem?

[5 Grand]

Okay, so let me get this straight. When I graduate with my JD in May and then pass the bar in July, I can sell weed, coke and heroin? And to do so, I have to go to a police precinct? Last thing the legal field needs is more access to drugs, there's already high levels alcoholism, drug abuse and depression in the field as is. Not sure why education level alone should give you access to legalized drugs...

But yeah its a not a good idea...

@ the bolded. Exactly. When you reach a certain level of education (military experience or 5 years in a union) you can sell drugs legally. By doing this we eliminate the drug dealers that dropped out of high school. Dropping out of high school and selling drugs will no longer be an option. The dropouts will be forced to go back to school.

Of course everyone does drugs. Yes rich people do drugs and can be functioning addicts, but rich people that do drugs aren't a problem because THEY CAN AFFORD DRUGS. Poorer drug addicts cause the most problems because they have to hustle to get their drugs and will do many things to do so. Stealing, selling drugs, prostitution, etc. Locking those people up costs a lot of money. A lot of these states don't have the money to lock them up.

You're solution isn't a solution at all. You cant give certain people access to drugs. At this moment nobody is technically supposed to have access to drugs, but guess what? Everyone finds a way to access it if they look hard enough. Those well educated people you speak of probably have jobs and skills that will keep them employed and well paid. Unless their habit is out of control, they won't need to steal or do anything illegal for their habit.

Your first paragraph that I highlighted proves my point. I agree with that first paragraph. Rich educated people can afford to do drugs. Its the poor drug users that are the problem. So to solve the problem we legalize drugs for rich educated people and make it illegal for poor uneducated people. If poor uneducated people can't get access to drugs they will either turn around and go back to school or stop using drugs because they can't get it.

The underlying solution is basically to trick a person that would have otherwise dropped out to go to college.

That's dumb. That is so stupid I am flabbergasted.

Most stupid shit is not this well thought out..

i think you just broke new ground

OK, if my idea is so bad, let me hear you guys suggestion on how to solve the drug problem.

If its not going to be by education level then how would you legalize it?

Because you can't have people dropping out of high school to smoke weed, which is why a lot of people drop out.

 

[playmaker88]

People drop out mostly because of lack of guidance. shitty decision making.. and apathy

 

[5 Grand]

People drop out mostly because of lack of guidance. shitty decision making.. and apathy

Cosign.

But when they do drugs after dropping out they experience negative social mobility.

 

[atribecalledgabi]

The stereotype of the high school pothead dropping out isn't even a thing anymore. EVERYONE smokes weed.

 

[PureYang]

The stereotype of the high school pothead dropping out isn't even a thing anymore. EVERYONE smokes weed.

It's never been a thing. Just propaganda

 

[brown321]

This is the most ignorant shit on here. Goddamn.

How bout we not lock up substance abusers? Already proven that treatment is more effective and cheaper.

 

[Go figure]

@5grand always catchin hell out here but never gives up im rootin for u man

....from a distance, from a distance

 

[Brian B.]

man, give the mf his own subforum lol

I disagree. The drug problem isnt a problem because hard working americans arent allowed to get fucked up on the weekends, its a problem because people are doing drugs, getting addicted, getting locked up and sent back out on to the streets without tackling the root of the problem. They are still addicted, they get high immediately, then they need to worry about their next fix and they often do things that are illegal to get money for that fix. When they are at a certain point, many of them cannot keep a job for various reasons: Not passing a drug test, being high on the job and fucking up, or withdrawing from said drug and calling out too many times. They get a criminal record and that fucks them over from getting a job in the future. That furthers the depression and that gives them another reason to get high.

They need to legalize all drugs. ALL drugs. I personally would keep ones like PCP illegal, but regardless if the drug is legal or not, if people want to do the drugs, they will do the drugs. Sell drugs exactly like legal weed states are doing and tax the shit. The taxes can go to paying for behavorial health clinics. A lot of these people have no job and no insurance, for them to get into treatment when they are ready is damn near impossible. Taxing legal drugs can help finance these clinics that can do medical detox and residential treatment.

Its a tricky subject and their really is no perfect answer for it.

It starts off with weed and then they graduate to coke and heroin.

many moons ago my pops friend gon pull me to the side talkin bout

"smoking weed leads to crack" smh

maybe for you mf

 

[anduin]

It should all be decriminalized. If it's an issue, it's a health issue. Not a legal one.

 

[5 Grand]

It should all be decriminalized. If it's an issue, it's a health issue. Not a legal one.

The problem is that some people can handle drugs and some people can't.

I've worked at an investment banking firm with stockbrokers and lawyers. They all arrive at work at 9:30am and go home at 4:00pm. They go home and get fucked up and come back to work the next day. Those people are functioning drug addicts and would be able to handle coke and heroin if it was decriminalized.

But think of the wino on the corner. He's laid out on the sidewalk and can't get up because he's downed a whole bottle of liquor. I don't think he should have access to hard drugs, in fact hard drugs are what put him on the corner in the first place.

My point is that some people can handle coke and heroin and some people can't. The same can be said about alcohol, some people can drink socially but they know their limit. Other people get DUIs and let alcohol ruin their lives.

 

[blue_london]

Didn't read the solution automatically know it's trash

 

[blue_london]

It should all be decriminalized. If it's an issue, it's a health issue. Not a legal one.

Exactly Portugal decriminalised the use of all drugs in 01 and opened places where people can take drugs under controlled guidance now people hardly die from the use of drugs and the amount of people using drugs has gone down

 

[5 Grand]

So you guys don't like my idea of a high school diploma/G.E.D. being a prerequisite to smoking weed?

Because its as clear as day to me, in Trenton you see kids on the corner at 8:00am who should be in school. And you walk past them again at 5:00pm and they're still on the corner. They don't work, they don't go to school they stand on the corner and hustle nickels and dime bags.

After living in Trenton for 4 years I've really gotten to know them. They're not making any money, just enough to buy something to eat for the day, something to drink and something to smoke. They don't sell weight. They sell nicks and dimes and you can tell they don't make a lot of sales, probably just enough to re-up. They'd make more money working a regular job...or going to college and living off student loans and federal grants.

 

[atribecalledgabi]

So you guys don't like my idea of a high school diploma/G.E.D. being a prerequisite to smoking weed?

Because its as clear as day to me, in Trenton you see kids on the corner at 8:00am who should be in school. And you walk past them again at 5:00pm and they're still on the corner. They don't work, they don't go to school they stand on the corner and hustle nickels and dime bags.

After living in Trenton for 4 years I've really gotten to know them. They're not making any money, just enough to buy something to eat for the day, something to drink and something to smoke. They don't sell weight. They sell nicks and dimes and you can tell they don't make a lot of sales, probably just enough to re-up. They'd make more money working a regular job...or going to college and living off student loans and federal grants.

Don't blame weed for their parents' mistakes

 

[CapitalB]

aint u the nigga that got raped in the mouth!?

yeh..

any idea that comes out of that fucked up head of urs has no credence..

nah..

not after bein skull fucked..

seek help nigga!

 

[5 Grand]

aint u the nigga that got raped in the mouth!?

yeh..

any idea that comes out of that fucked up head of urs has no credence..

nah..

not after bein skull fucked..

seek help nigga!

That's all you can add to the discussion?

 

[CapitalB]

aint u the nigga that got raped in the mouth!?

yeh..

any idea that comes out of that fucked up head of urs has no credence..

nah..

not after bein skull fucked..

seek help nigga!

That's all you can add to the discussion?

wit u at “the head of it”..

yep.

 

[BrideofKilla]

You can set up the laws however you want.

Folks that keep it pushin are gonna do just that.

 

[Madame_CJSkywalker]

It should all be decriminalized. If it's an issue, it's a health issue. Not a legal one.

The problem is that some people can handle drugs and some people can't.

I've worked at an investment banking firm with stockbrokers and lawyers. They all arrive at work at 9:30am and go home at 4:00pm. They go home and get fucked up and come back to work the next day. Those people are functioning drug addicts and would be able to handle coke and heroin if it was decriminalized.

But think of the wino on the corner. He's laid out on the sidewalk and can't get up because he's downed a whole bottle of liquor. I don't think he should have access to hard drugs, in fact hard drugs are what put him on the corner in the first place.

My point is that some people can handle coke and heroin and some people can't. The same can be said about alcohol, some people can drink socially but they know their limit. Other people get DUIs and let alcohol ruin their lives.

Ppl are going to drink and do drugs regardless of the laws on the book

And there will always be ppl willing to take advantage and make a dolla

The war on drugs and there criminalization is a failure and ur idea is just more of the same lol

Not to mention ur idea would be terrible for blk and poor blk

 

[5 Grand]

I'm trying to think of a way to encourage people to seek higher education.

Drugs have devastated the Black community. People drop out, don't work, get mixed up with drugs and end up in prison. And when they get out of prison they have no diploma or skills so they go back to their old habits.

If you were trying to break the cycle how would you do it?