Welcome • User Guide
ToS • Privacy • Canary
Donate • Bugs • License

©2024 Poal.co

1.5K

Had a disagreement with my wife over Trumps “controversial” statement regarding giving drug dealers the death penalty.

She brings up things like kids that sold marijuana don’t deserve said death penalty.

I believe there should be a gradation, but a serious threat of punishment should be there in order to discourage kids from getting into the business in the first place. Thing is, selling drugs is almost like a drug of its own, since easy money gained from preying on people’s weaknesses is hard to turn away, especially once some connections are made.

I personally believe that we should also include medical professionals into the conversation as well. How many people died from the opioid crisis? How many people were held accountable for that? Why are we focusing just on the “street” drug dealers and ignoring the corporate ones?

Nowadays, so many doctors are inept and just functionally act as pill pushers rather than actual doctors. How much suffering and death could be linked to this? Instead of telling people to get their health, diet, lifestyle, or choices in control, they just provide you with an “easy button” with side effects.

Had a disagreement with my wife over Trumps “controversial” statement regarding giving drug dealers the death penalty. She brings up things like kids that sold marijuana don’t deserve said death penalty. I believe there should be a gradation, but a serious threat of punishment should be there in order to discourage kids from getting into the business in the first place. Thing is, selling drugs is almost like a drug of its own, since easy money gained from preying on people’s weaknesses is hard to turn away, especially once some connections are made. I personally believe that we should also include medical professionals into the conversation as well. How many people died from the opioid crisis? How many people were held accountable for that? Why are we focusing just on the “street” drug dealers and ignoring the corporate ones? Nowadays, so many doctors are inept and just functionally act as pill pushers rather than actual doctors. How much suffering and death could be linked to this? Instead of telling people to get their health, diet, lifestyle, or choices in control, they just provide you with an “easy button” with side effects.

(post is archived)

You are currently inside a comment thread.
Click here to see all the comments (53).
[–] • 1 pt

Here’s a radical idea: the government shouldn’t have the authority to tell you what you’re allowed to ingest. The government themselves will sell you alcohol but throw you in prison for possessing mushrooms.

Drug dealers shouldn’t have to exist. You should be able to buy heroin at a gas station. If heroin and meth didn’t exist, the people who abuse them would just drink themselves out of a job and family and eventually to death. And if alcohol didn’t exist they’d find something else legal to get fucked up on and ruin their lives with.

Addicts don’t need drugs to fuck up their lives, and you don’t need the government to prevent you from becoming a meth head.

Stop trying to give the government more power, it’s literally the opposite of the reason this country was even formed