Reply #35: Oh really? I guess I've been blind!

[JackRiddler]

These are terrible behaviors that should be punished when they are engaged in. That's why there are laws against child prostitution, abandoning your children, rape and other crimes.

What you're describing are the consequences of PROHIBITION, which not only entirely fails to solve the human problem of addiction, but exacerbates it massively by pushing it underground.

Who would "sell their children" for drugs if there was no money to be made from drugs? Why are drugs a profitable business that anyone can enter? Can you see the connection?

I grew up in a big city and I've seen terrible things due to drugs as well.

Now tell me why all of these problems are so much less dramatic in societies that take a softer line on drugs? Tell me why drug use actually declines under the Dutch model?

Justify putting people in jail for marijuana, which has never caused the extreme behaviors you describe.

Go ahead.