Is it normal to think drug offenders should be sentenced more strictly

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I seriously think (violent) drug offenders should be sentenced harsher. I live in a really stupid state where we love drug addicts so much by giving out free pipes and clean needles, so they don't harm themselves. When drug offenders are sentenced to only like a few days to a month, they will quickly return to their shit of choice. When an addict is saved by the hospital, they are sent home just to go do it again, instead of getting treatment or going to prison. The number of drug related deaths only increase each year. Drug addicts/offenders need to be off the streets and in a mandatory drug treatment center or prison, so they don't end up in a morgue or be the reason that someone else ends up there. I have 3 drug addicts for brothers and existing with them was medieval torture. If they die, I don't think I'll shed a single tear. But I would rather have them be locked up for for 10 years than have them be dead in a ditch or be the cause of someone's death. My brother robbed someone at gunpoint while high, and only got four years! He could have killed him! After his sentence, he was arrested for driving high and only got four days. Again, he could have killed someone. Those that say, "Drug offenses should be lessened because prisons are too full," should be beaten and robbed by drug addicts because that's what happened to me. If prisons are too full, the answer is not to lessen sentences, but figure out ways to keep people from committing crimes in the first place. Or force offenders to work as their punishment/rehabilitation.

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  • randypete
    7 years ago

    all drugs should be legal

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  • AbnormallyAwesome
    7 years ago

    The problem is prisons don't solve anything. Your brother was in there for 4 years, right? That's more than enough time to leave behind an addiction yet he went right back to it after he was released. You know why? Because the number 1 cause for drug addiction is a bad or non-existant social environement. When life is too painful to bear sober (There's plenty of studies on that). The psychological addiction is way stronger than the physical one.
    Hardly anything destroyes your social environement like prison. Time passes you by, friends move on and when you come out you got nothing left. So obvioussly they go right back to doing drugs even if they sobered up before.

    Reality shows that countries putting their money in helping addicts rather than punishing them have way less problems with violent drug offenders.

    "While the United States represents about 4.4 percent of the world's population, it houses around 22 percent of the world's prisoners" - Wikipedia
    This shit clearly isn't working.

    Listen, I'd never do drugs. I don't even drink. But punishing those who do doesen't help them or anyone else. Love and forgiveness is not just some hippie idea, it's literally the only thing that works.

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  • turdferguson73
    7 years ago

    Yes, violent drug offenders or violent offenders period should be sentenced a lot more strictly. Drug addicts who are only hurting their bodies should not be put in jail unless they're repeat offenders. They need rehab and loving family and friends.

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  • Murun
    7 years ago

    It's the word 'violent' that makes all the difference. Violent offenders with or without drugs should be locked away.
    Non-violent drug users should be left alone in my opinion. It's a victimless crime.

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  • breanna95
    7 years ago

    I hate you.

    You go against everything about harm reduction that I stand for, and although I played a very large role in making clean needles and naloxone easily available to drug users where I live, I am too outraged to comment and argue with you.

    You have no idea what the life of a drug user is like, and it is extremely likely that you would become an (even IV) H addict aswell. Ask me how, I dare you.

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  • [Old Memory]
    7 years ago

    The urge to get high is natural. No matter what the punishments imposed upon the addicts drug use is NEVER going to stop. Even in the face of death penalty the addicts are not going to stop.

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  • mrbrownfinger2
    7 years ago

    Everyone should be free do take drugs if they want to, but I also believe drug dealers should be given harsher sentences. Violent criminals, where we know 100% it was definitely them, should be given capital punishment

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  • TurtleBurger
    7 years ago

    I think they should be executed.

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  • Terence_the_viking
    7 years ago

    Yep that should have a hand chopped off.

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