(The New) Faces of Meth

[Devildog01]

Don't knock it till you try it.

 

[antichrist]

So you're saying that if pot were legal, we'd see a decrease in meth? Somehow I don't see the logic, but I guess we'll see in WA and CO if the Feds don't go after them.

?? Where did I say that?
If you have bald tires on your Rover, hydroplane and total it, putting good tires on the wreck isn't going make your Rover suddenly driveable again. But hopefully you'd learn from the experience and not drive your next one with bald tires.

Sadly, the country learned very little from Prohibition.
Once the genie is out, so to speak, it hard to get it back. Making pot legal isn't going to make addicts quit.
I don't expect there would be a noticeable decrease in my lifetime, but long term, as the current crop dies out, I expect fewer people would be trying it.

 

[knewsom]

From my experience rehab has a low effective rate. Once someone has a serious problem it is near impossible to cure them. You can disagree or say I'm wrong, but I am speaking from my experience in law enforcement with drug offenders. I deal mainly with crack, meth, and bath salts.

I'd argue that jail is even less effective. If rehab is like college for addicts, jail is like criminal grad school.

 

[ptschram]

So you're saying that if pot were legal, we'd see a decrease in meth? Somehow I don't see the logic, but I guess we'll see in WA and CO if the Feds don't go after them.

Did Alaska see an increase when marijuana was legal?

 

[ptschram]

From my experience rehab has a low effective rate. Once someone has a serious problem it is near impossible to cure them. You can disagree or say I'm wrong, but I am speaking from my experience in law enforcement with drug offenders. I deal mainly with crack, meth, and bath salts.

A friend of mine from college has been to prison at least four times that I know of for Cocaine related felonies.

He's worth tens of millions-if he could stay clean.

Sadly, he finally burned a bridge with me, his last friend who hadn't been to prison.

 

[apg]

Sadly, the country learned very little from Prohibition.

Indeed. There was one really great quote from the recent Ken Burns PBS series on Prohibition:

"If you want people to brush their teeth more, make toothpaste illegal. People will be up on their roofs at night brushing...."