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Drug Control & Addiction....

Do you believe that drug addicts are criminals or are they victims?


  • Criminal all the way

    A person knows right from wrong at a very early age. They know the risk factors from taking drugs, so why do they do it? I understand about peer pressure and all, but I had peer pressure when I was younger but I didn’t resort to drugs to solve my problem. A drug addict knows what he/she is getting into, so why condone it when they know it is wrong. I understand that we can’t totally outlaw drugs, but drugs used for medicinal purposes are okay cause I know what happens when drugs ARE used for medicinal purposes but other than that they are a criminal. What do you think?

    21%  Voted for by Kevin, prettyangeleyes, LaBelle.
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  • drugs, a governement spossored scam

    is something bad simply because it is illegal? I think not. If that were true, the opposite would be true as well: ie. something is good because it is legal. The problem in our society is that our government has passed laws (may they be people sponsored or not) that assume that we the people are too stupid to be judges of how we should opperate and medicate. Advil is a drug, can be bought in the corner 7/11, can be usefull and can be abused, but has to be bought from a company that has taken the time to ‘package’ the deal. Pott, which could be readily available (it is a naturally occuring plant in this country) can be used to replace the usage of Advil, and often much more powerfull drugs. But then we wouldn’t be buying into the corporate systeme wich owns our government.

    21%  Voted for by pigtailgirl, bob2314, Kazrith.
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  • neither

    they are just regular people addicted to drugs

    14%  Voted for by drops, petethemeat.
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  • both

    they are criminal because they have done but victims because of peer pressure and pressure within the media to do it. mostly criminals though.

    Ash

    14%  Voted for by daydreamer89, ohsweetie2788.
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  • the grey area

    peer pressure is possibly a reason for drug experimentation but never the root of drug abuse. in honesty, drugs are expensive and users aren’t likely to want to share… it’s very easy for the media and society as a whole to paint complex matters black and white when really, outside of a courthouse (and very much within) answers to why and how some deviate from social norms often lie extremely close/overlaping to the laws set to abide by. the ‘average’ ‘clean’ person needs to be able to distance their own lives from that of an addict by making broad, unfounded generalisations (‘peer pressure’, ‘weak’, ‘criminal’, etc..) because in reality the difference between “us” and “them” is non-exsistant. l-.

    Voted for by Laurili.
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  • Depends

    Depends if they are in violation of a law or not. I live in the state of Mississippi in the USA. I do not drink but like if I stand in the street and get drunk then I can be arrested for “public drunk”, but if I take one step backwards onto my own lawn, then I’m free to drank all I wish. That is what I mean by “it depends”. It depends on where you are at in the world, what you are doing, and what the local laws say.

    Voted for by Energizer Bunny.
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  • Both

    Criminals are merely those who disobey the law. Drug use is against the law.

    Being an addict is a terribly hard thing to overcome, and people typically brush it off as, “It’s their own fault.”, “They’re lazy/weak.”, or “Well, that’s just tough for them, then!”. These are the same people who NO idea what the word addiction truly means.

    Was it stupid for them to start using drugs in the first place? Probably (some are highly exaggerated on how bad they are). But the fact remains that they have become victims of a terrible disease. They will despise who they become, but every moment outside of being under the influence is nothing but absolute pain.

    Voted for by Scrap.
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  • both

    They start as criminals and always are criminals because they are breaking the law by possessing and using illegal drugs. Eventually they become victims. The only thing is that they could save themselves, but they won't.

    Voted for by newmiracle87.
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