They seemed happy
Posted on 05/08/2016 10:20:07 AM PDT by Olog-hai
No chance this works. As a former addict, I’ve seen what goes on in ‘the traphouse’. Prostitution, consensual sex, ripoffs — none of that would be permitted in shooting galleries, so... not a chance people would show up there.
They seemed happy
Dr. Laura Schlessinger: “Give them dirty needles so they can die.”
The United States of Sedation. It seems that more and more of our populace is either stoned or inebriated most of the time. How did it come to this point?
Another idea — which I suggest merely as a thought experiment — is for the police to seize drugs whenever possible, adulterate the drugs with slow-acting fatal poison, and then sell the supply back on the street. If 5% of your addict population dies every week, then you are (roughly) 20 weeks away from being a drug-free city. And, of course, no new users are likely, because the life expectancy of a junkie just became less than 20 weeks.
It would fix the problem. But, of course, some folks would rather live with the problem than adopt this solution.
“I’ll go ya a step farther. Why not take some closed military bases, equip them with drug and condom dispensaries, cafeterias, open bars, TV and videogame rooms, and for the 15-25% of the population that has not the slightest aspiration over and above getting out of bed in the morning and then getting high and then just hanging out on a couch all day, these folks could be removed from society and supervised by a modest staff. There would be a small collection of rules and exit and ejection conditions. The cost savings would be phenomenal over what society has to cope with dealing with its various miscreants.”
There’s a certain percentage of the public that would gladly choose this option if it was made available. Why not give them what they want?
Rather than being taxpayer funded, let the insurance companies who pay out millions of dollars in claims from thefts on homeowner claims, auto accidents and every other associated cost of dealing with drug addiction.
Ever since man figured out how to get high in some form or another, some have been able to handle it in moderation and some have chosen the path to their own destruction.
What the should be entrance requirements for admission to such a facility can be debated, but as a starting point, the people discussed in the article, dying of OD’s in alleys, etc. would be a good place to start.
Some people choose to live and end their lives this way. Why should the rest of us be made to pay for it by being their victims in their constant quest to find their high?
Well, you know, it’s no different from back-alley abortions and we legalized those, why not heroin> And those back aley murders...
Well, you know, it’s no different from back-alley abortions and we legalized those, why not heroin> And those back alley murders...
I have thought that with Virtual Reality coming on, including Virtual Sex, we could set up a membership for people (random length — 2 years? 3? 5? 7? no one ever knows). If you sign up, you get transported to a special place. You get all the video games you want, all the virtual sex, all the alcohol, all the drugs. It’s anything goes for — 2 years? 3? 5? 7?
But one day when you’re enjoying the VR, someone blows your head off.
People would sign up for this. A lot of people.
Ohhhh,
You mean opium dens.
“How did it come to this point?”
We slap drug dealers on the wrist when they’re caught. The only ones that seem to get life in prision are the kingpins ... and they’re replaced quickly when they’re caught.
You need to execute dealers. Anyone caught dealing heroin needs to die. Maybe give them a pass the first time since anyone is capable of doing something stupid once. That’s the liberal side of me talking I guess. However, the second time you are caught dealing that garbage, you die. I’d lump meth dealers in with that group.
We coddle our criminals. They push “rehabilitation for criminals” on us since it gets liberals money to perform social experiments. It also gets them political power since they can play on people’s emotions and make you out to be “heartless” if you don’t care for this breed of scum even if they tend to get out of jail and go right back to doing what they do best. Maybe if a couple thousand were executed, word might spread that no amount of money is worth dealing opiates.
As for the addicts, I’d blame liberalism for them. I almost feel dirty for saying that since I’m one who is pretty heavily into personal responsibility. Sure, the addict made the initial choice to use said drug, but there are millions of shades of grey as to why that decision was made. Many times it was a foolish, reckless decision made when the person was very young. However, had liberals not had so much compassion for hardened criminals dealing a drug that turns your average person into a zombie, we might not be in a situation where we are even considering “shooting up safehouses”.
Our War on Drugs is a joke. It’s been fought by politicians like all the wars the US has been involved with since WWII ... there is no clear path for victory laid out, the media tries to make the USA look like barbarians when they execute the war, and a bunch of filthy liberals are out there protesting publicly while being paid by communists privately.
“It’s Odungo world
He just gave early release to 58 drug dealers...it figures”
There’s a FReeper who supports this.
Organizations pushing for legalized marijuana have been funded by Soros. I wonder who is funded this stupid to the max idea.
Next step - everyone just line up for your mandatory weekly soma dose.
An alarming 47,000 American overdose deaths in 2014 — 60 percent from heroin and related painkillers like fentanyl — has pushed elected leaders from coast to coast to consider what was once unthinkable: government-sanctioned sites where users can shoot up under the supervision of a doctor or nurse who can administer an antidote if necessary.
Just let the freaks die, that’s what they want. So I and other taxpayers are supposedly going to have to pay for addicits’ drugs and doctors to keep them alive and the buildings to do it in.
This is so disgusting I can hardly stand it.
So how much enabling do we need to do????
Isn’t it classic enabling behavior, to make it easier for drug addicts to shoot up????
Isn’t it a bit crazy, to make official policy based on the idea that we will save them from drug overdoses, that we will save them from themselves????
If we are going to save them from themselves, wouldn’t we all be better off making sure they go to rehab?
Rehab is for quitters.
I’d like to see Obamalamadingdong in a rehab for pole smokers. Little wiggler that he is.
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