We have to stop them wrecking the place. The only alternative is spending money on treatment and youth services. We can’t be spending money on people taking drugs while landlords are out there sober as a judge struggling to put bedrooms on their sitting rooms.
There’s a charity who can help the drug addicts. What do you want, give the landlords money to the addicts and the charity can be set up for landlords. Madness.
The offences you commit on drugs or in pursuit of money for drugs are crimes though.
This is one of the only times I’ve found myself agreeing with a bishop.
>Addiction is not a crime
Having cancer isn’t a crime either, your grace.
Walter White was a criminal not because he had cancer, but because of his actions once he became ill with it.
Nobody is imprisoning people for “addiction”
Not that applicable to us but I like David Simon’s (The Wire) advice; if you are ever on a jury trying a non-violent drug offence, vote to acquit regardless of the evidence. Put your legs up on the table, smile, and say “Hmmm, I still think there’s a reasonable doubt”
They are not in prison because they are addicts, they are in prison because they committed crimes to support that addiction.
The bishop also says that sky man died and came back to life 2000 years ago, and he is also his own son, or something.
Addiction not a crime for sure. The crimes people commit while under the influence of drugs and alcohol or to get money to buy more drugs and alcohol are crimes and should be treated as such.
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We have to stop them wrecking the place. The only alternative is spending money on treatment and youth services. We can’t be spending money on people taking drugs while landlords are out there sober as a judge struggling to put bedrooms on their sitting rooms.
There’s a charity who can help the drug addicts. What do you want, give the landlords money to the addicts and the charity can be set up for landlords. Madness.
The offences you commit on drugs or in pursuit of money for drugs are crimes though.
Addiction is a disease not a crime.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/drug-addiction/symptoms-causes/syc-20365112
Punishing addicts has been shown time and time again not to work. (I know these are about America but it’s the same here)
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-briefs/2015/08/federal-drug-sentencing-laws-bring-high-cost-low-return
https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/18613/chapter/15
This is one of the only times I’ve found myself agreeing with a bishop.
>Addiction is not a crime
Having cancer isn’t a crime either, your grace.
Walter White was a criminal not because he had cancer, but because of his actions once he became ill with it.
Nobody is imprisoning people for “addiction”
Not that applicable to us but I like David Simon’s (The Wire) advice; if you are ever on a jury trying a non-violent drug offence, vote to acquit regardless of the evidence. Put your legs up on the table, smile, and say “Hmmm, I still think there’s a reasonable doubt”
They are not in prison because they are addicts, they are in prison because they committed crimes to support that addiction.
The bishop also says that sky man died and came back to life 2000 years ago, and he is also his own son, or something.
Addiction not a crime for sure. The crimes people commit while under the influence of drugs and alcohol or to get money to buy more drugs and alcohol are crimes and should be treated as such.
What if you stole your drugs?
Possession of illegal drugs is a crime.