"Frontline" looks at the Meth problem tonight...

[Archae]

Meth should never even be CONSIDERED for legalization.

Pot yes.

Meth never.

[tridim]

1. Agreed, but I don't think most meth addicts should be in prison either.

That's a tough one.

[Archae]

2. If they are stealing or whatnot to finance their habit?

I've known meth users who would steal anything to get money for their fix.

[tridim]

4. I said it was tricky.

They need intensive, subsidized treatment. Prison doesn't help.

[LuvNewcastle]

3. Meth's illegality is as much an environmental issue

as it is a health issue. Even if a lab doesn't explode, it leaves a horrible toxic mess to be cleaned up.

[GoCubsGo]

5. I think they aired this one last fall.

If so, it's definitely worth watching. It's extremely enlightening. After watching it, one will almost certainly agree with the others here that it should remain illegal. It is horrible, vile stuff.

[MadHound]

10. I don't have to watch a program to know about the meth problem in this country,

I'm living right in the middle of it, in the meth capital of the world.

I've had friends and family members fall victim to the shit. I've had stuff of mine ripped off by meth heads, including a central air unit that was probably scrapped for the price of the metal. I've seen the blazes as meth labs burn, gone by the toxic waste sites that are former meth labs, seen what meth does to a community, society, seen my civil liberties taken away because of meth. And you know what, having experienced all of this and more, I find that the only sensible solution is to legalize the stuff.

That way we can stop the secondary crime wave that comes with meth, stop the environmental damage, restore our civil liberties, and most importantly starting treating meth like the public health problem it is, not the criminal problem it isn't.

[MadHound]

6. Why not?

Look, people who are looking for the high that meth gives them are going to find it one way or the other. Why not allow those people access to clean, quality controlled amphetamines? The secondary health problems that they are currently suffering from using crap made out of battery acid, matchhead sulfur and god knows what else would be minimized. The crime wave that we out here in the Meth Capital of the World are suffering under would disappear. The environmental nightmares that are dotting our countryside(and that nobody is doing a damn thing about) would no longer happen. Not to mention that legalization would lead to higher amounts of people actually getting off the shit.

I don't know where you live, but I live smack dab in the middle of meth country. It would be nice to get it back from the meth heads, and the only way that is going to happen is if you legalize it. Otherwise, the problem is just going to continue to grow out of control. Prohibition never works, never. It doesn't deter the folks who want to use the stuff, and it only hurts the innocent people in the surrounding society.

[xchrom]

7. +1 - you wanna beat it? 'control' it.

Put it under a doctors care & go from there.

What we're doing now isnt working.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

8. Agreed.

[LuvNewcastle]

9. You may be right.

A lot of meth is made here, too, and it makes me sick every time I see people on the news in haz-mat suits cleaning up another lab. Are we going to let this continue until we have dozens of quarantine sites all over the county? It seems like the only way to stop it is to take away the profitability from the makers and sellers. Locking them up isn't enough of a deterrent; hell, the death penalty probably wouldn't be a deterrent. I don't see what it could hurt to give your suggestion a try.

[WillyT]

11. Meth's A Tough One...

Link: http://tinyurl.com/bn6gokz

[Cali_Democrat]

12. Thanks for the heads up

should be interesting.

[jannyk]

13. It's a Repeat. I've seen it. It's good though. nt

[Cronkite]

14. I'm just about to watch the show

It should be interesting. I have mixed feelings about legalization for adults. Who am I to tell anyone what they can or can not do? I agree it is a horrible drug however I believe people should have the ability to make their own decisions on what they do to themselves.

[Archae]

15. It's what meth does to people around the methhead.

The labs are toxic waste disasters.

The meth makers' chemicals cause horrendous injuries.

Meth users will sell their babies for their high, and steal anything.

And meth users go nuts, doing the craziest things imaginable.