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Old 07-13-2013, 09:28 AM
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Originally Posted by aklim View Post
The problem I see with drug use is that while it is your body, someone else would be liable for the tab so it becomes difficult to define what exactly the interest I have in your affair. If your drug use simply let you die quietly, worst case scenario is we send a truck over to cart your carcass to the dump site. However, when I can be liable for your attempted rehab or problems as the drug causes, it puts it into a grey area.
Big gulp nanny state?

Sounds like we're back to government enforced personal responsibility.

So, if money is the hang up, maybe it's time to run the numbers...
Does the caring for the addicts cost as much as the entire legal system (cops, lawyers, judges, prisons, guards, parole officers.....)
I think you may be surprised.

http://www.justicepolicy.org/images/upload/04-01_REP_MDTreatmentorIncarceration_AC-DP.pdf

feel free to google up your own sources too
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