The New York University and the Chicago studies on drug addiction support the notion that drug addiction necessarily leads to predatory crime as a way of life. “For most narcotic addicts, predatory crime (larceny, shoplifting, sneak thievery, burglary, embezzlement, robbery, etc.), is a necessary way of life.”
It doesn’t have to be.
Here are latest victims of New Hampshire’s failure of a drug war:
05/02/10 – Hudson teen busted with marijuana, paraphernalia
(Another soon to be felon for possessing a plant.)
05/03/10 – Man arrested for walking while intoxicated
(This story is particularly offensive. This guy was arrested for possession of Marijuana and was released on bail with a condition that he not use alcohol. Woops, he drank, and police found him. Now he is locked up. Land of the free!)
05/03/10 – 3 men stand accused over shoe thefts
(The article doesn’t say specifically… but I bet you these guys needed money for drugs.)
05/03/10 – Sentencing delayed in AIDS drug resale case
(I’m sure that AIDS treatment drugs are heavily abused by teenagers now-a-days……… I’d imagine that the only people who would want to buy these types of drugs from an “illegal” drug dealer would be people who cannot afford the treatment of a doctor and are forced to figure it out on their own? Either way, the person about to be sentenced in this case victimized no one and your tax dollars will be used to keep her in a cage.)
05/03/10 – Milton woman gets 3 years in prison for Barrington bank robbery
(The article doesn’t reference a drug habit…. but I’m willing to bet (and it would be pretty easy to prove) that’s why she did it.)
05/03/10 – Restaurant Surveillance Shows 2 Robberies in 4 Hours
(The article doesn’t say… but I guarantee you I know why they were doing it.)
05/04/10 – Portsmouth Police say woman sold Oxycodone
(I’m sure she did. I’m also sure the people who purchased the drugs from her victimized untold dozens of innocent people to afford the inflated price she charged. The Portsmouth Police can run all the undercover drug operations it wants but it will never stop the black market sale of drugs within it’s city limits. It will just continue to waste money, inflate a violent black market, and force people who are desperate to get these drugs to commit crime. Not such a bad idea if you work for the government I guess. Crime = job.)
05/05/10 – Woman arrested over using forged prescription
(These victimless cases take thousands and thousands of dollars to investigate and prosecute. Oh, more thousands and thousands of dollars to imprison the “offender” are required also. Random idea: This person shouldn’t be tossed in a cage or labeled a felon. Lets use a fraction of the cost involved to investigate and prosecute to help this person become drug free. Oh, and by the way…. Since the prescription forging idea didn’t work, count this person as a good candidate to start leading a life of property crime (or worse) to cover her habit.)
05/05/10 – Pair arrested on burglary, drug charges
(More innocent people victimized because a person will do anything to get the drugs they need.)
05/05/10 – Plea deals struck as meth trial looms
(Methamphetamine is horrible stuff. Its production causes countless health risks and produces numerous victims. The REASON why people are cooking this awful stuff (and often getting people very sick from exposure to the chemicals involved in it’s production) is because of prohibition. If a fighter pilot can have doctor prescribed methamphetamine to fly a long mission why is it that a mother working a 16-hour shift as a waitress cannot have something similar? In my quasi-professional opinion no one should ever come close to even considering the use of crystal-meth. If you really want to solve the problem of this stuff being available………….. ending prohibition is how you do it. Do you know where hard liquor came from? Alcohol prohibition. The same is true of this horrible stuff (as well as crack cocaine).)
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But prohibition doesn’t cause crime, right?
Wrong. It is proven by scientific research. If the government really wanted to protect people from this type of crime and help people who use poor judgment and get addicted to dangerous drugs, harm reduction is the way to go. But what incentive does the government have to adopt this rational and compassionate policy when so many people stand to lose their jobs over it?
