Reply #5: Victimless crimes are

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often ridiculous and the punishment is draconian. If someone's habit is not causing them to harm someone else, then it is a matter of their ability to function as far as any social issues are concerned.

We would accomplish more by educating people about drug use and offering services for people who want help with quitting.

What creates the real problems is that the illegality of drugs creates a black market which profits dealers and those who enforce the laws. The high price of a habit is what causes users to turn to whatever is necessary to sustain it. That also creates health problems from lack of nutrition, etc.

There was a time, as some know, when opiates were in many commercial remedies and people who did have a habit could buy a packet of heroin at a local pharmacy for pennies. They could still live normal lives.

We have created the drug problem as it exists today and that makes it a social issue that we could also fix easily if we could get those who are invested in the drug war to stop. The question is, how do you tell an enforcement industry their cash cow has died and they should all just go home or fight real crime? Not to mention all the agencies and programs that revolve around the war on some drugs.