Are Drug Addicts Victims Or Criminals?
Posted: Thursday, December 08, 2005
by David Hallstrom
http://www.usacitydirectories.com
By: David G. Hallstrom, Sr.
This article is about people who are addicted to illegal drugs, not people who become addicted to prescription drugs that were originaly prescribed by a licensed physician for a legitimate reason.
According to most defense attorneys, politicians, religious leaders, Hollywood celebrities and Democrats as well as many prosecutors and judges and as well as a large part of the American public who have been brainwashed by the "politically correct arbitrators", drug addicts are victims.
I don't feel sorry for drug users and addicts. A drug user, with very few exceptions (ie: Someone with an IQ of under sixty), knew the very first time he or she took illegal drugs that he or she was breaking the law. Therefore, the drug user, at that point, became a criminal. The drug user was not only breaking the law, he or she was also aiding and abetting the criminal that gave or sold the user the drugs. The user was providing, or would in the future provide, money or services to the peddler that would enable the peddler to stay in business and to break more laws. If there were no users, there would be no peddlers and if there were no peddlers there would be no drug lords. There would be no drug lords who could use their money to commit murder, nor cause murder to be commited. There would be no drug lords to bribe government officials, no drug lords to pay people to grow and cultivate plants to be turned into drugs. In other words if there were no drug users there would be no drug trafficking.
People have said to me, "I only smoke marijuana, and smoking marijuana should not be against the law because it is no worse than drinking acohol. Additionally, if it is a crime it is a victimless crime.". I tell them that they are wrong. In the first place drinking alcohol is legal for people over the age of twenty one (Whether or not drinking alcohol should be legal is a subject for another article.). In the second place, money used to buy marijuana goes to criminals and is in many instances used to commit more crimes. In the third place, some people resort to crime in order to support their habit. In the fourth place, many people while smoking marijauna, become idiots, and while being forced to talk to or deal with those people may not be considered a crime... it should be.
Many people state that the laws against using certain drugs are bad laws, therefore it is okay to break those laws. Well, I have news for them, if they use those drugs, they are breaking those laws (good or bad) and they are still criminals and they still deserve to be punished. Everyone has their own ideas as to which laws are good and which laws are bad. If everyone only adhered to the laws that they approved of then we would have anarchy.
If you don't like the current drug laws, work to have them changed. In the meantime every time you use illegal drugs you are helping someone either, a criminal or a terrorist, get into a position where they can commit more crimes, including possibly taking the lives of innocent people. This means that you could, indirectly, be killing innocent people in order to have your fun.
As far as I am concerned, anyone who would put people's lives in jeopardy in order to "enjoy" the use of illegal drugs, should be sent to prison for a long time. The idea that we should be helping and rehabilitating these 'poor', 'abused' drug addicts is baloney. People that are addicted to illegal drugs started out as criminals and are still criminals. They knew that they were breaking the law and, unless they were really stupid, they knew there was a chance that they could become addicted. They might have thought that they were too smart or too strong to become addicted, but they still knew that there was, no matter how small, a chance that it could happen.
Remember, if there were no drug users there would be no drug trafficking.
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About The Author David G. Hallstrom, Sr. is a retired private investigator and currently publishes several internet directories including http://www.resourcesforattorneys.com a legal and lifestyle resources directory for attorneys, lawyers and the internet public. For more lifestyle information see http://lifestyle.resourcesforattorneys.com, the Lifestyle directory from Resources For Attorneys. |
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Top-level comments on this article: (3 total)This author must be perfect making no mistakes. Any educated person that can comprehend reality knows that human beings make mistakes and certainly shouldn't be punished for being ill if recovery is an option. Such issues are not in black and white. Drug addicts are miserable and want to feel better, that is why they do drugs. Drug addiction is an illness just like any other illness; physical disease, or mental illness. Research genes, biology, common sense
"If you don't like the current drug laws, work to have them changed. In the meantime every time you use illegal drugs you are helping someone either, a criminal or a terrorist..."This is not always true, especially when the drug is of domestic origin. I would say that in the case of cocaine or heroin, there is a good chance the importation of your drug contributed to someone's death. But, notice it's almost always the marketing of the drug that is the real threat to society. And why? Because drugs are illegal.
To rephrase your logic: Remember, if drugs were not illegal, there would be no illegal drug trafficking.Drug addicts are victims first, and criminals only by virtue of the whims of the times they live in. Take away the criminalization, and the addict is still a victim.
In some countries drinking a wine would make you a criminal. Think about that. maybe we should adopt that morality in the U.S., as well, considering alcohol is the deadliest drug of all.- G
While anyone with any capacity for critical reasoning will agree that drug addiction is not a disease & drug users are not victims, virtually everything else you say is irrational, fascist propaganda. Frankly, you are a moron.
"Money used to buy marijuana goes to criminals and is in many instances used to commit more crimes".
Your entire set of reasoning for declaring drug users and retailers to be criminals is based merely on the arbitrary legal status of the given substance.. I would also think that someone such as yourself who portrays the image of reason would be able to deliniate cause & correllation where it pertains to illicit drug trafficking & crime (specifically violent crime, property crime, etc) - Unless you have an IQ of under 70 (which meets clinical criteria for mental retardation), I don't have to waste my time explaining to you the tirelessly discussed connection between prohibition & high-stakes criminal markets - one obvious instance being alcohol prohibition in the US in the early 20th century.
Illicit drugs - arbitrarily - becoming licit would instantly pull your logic right out from under your arrogant & intolerant **s. - the "drug peddler" and "drug-lord", again arbitrarily, would no longer be "criminals", thus the consumer would no longer be "aiding and abetting" criminal activity.. And needless to say, violent crimes committed by marijuana, opium & heroin dealers would be about as common as violent crimes committed by the druglords at Marlboro, Anheuser-Busch, or Starbucks.
To directly connect a neutral, inanimate entity such as a narcotic with murder, chaos, and evil - all the deeds of human beings is about as unintelligent as believing that addicts just can't help themselve. Drugs themselves are immaterial to the violence and crime of drug traffickers - If Panamanian Banana wholesalers were to murder other fruit-traffickers over market-shares would you consider it to be "banana crime" and "banana violence" ?
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