Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Current time: July 22, 2025, 10:34 pm

Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Drugs: A moral decision, a matter of choice, or a national health risk?
#11
RE: Drugs: A moral decision, a matter of choice, or a national health risk?
(September 20, 2014 at 3:25 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:
(September 20, 2014 at 2:33 pm)MusicLovingAtheist Wrote: I think that to a degree, there has to be punishment as a deterrent for some things. If someone committed a crime and you sent them on a retreat, everyone would commit crimes. So that may be the purpose for deterring people from committing crimes.

I don't know - the simple fact that we have prisons bursting at the seams with drug users suggests to me that in general, illegality is a poor deterrent.
That is a problem.
Reply



Messages In This Thread
RE: Drugs: A moral decision, a matter of choice, or a national health risk? - by MusicLovingAtheist - September 20, 2014 at 3:37 pm

Possibly Related Threads...
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  Do you protest? Armchair or street and does any of it matter? Goosebump 55 6806 April 28, 2025 at 7:45 am
Last Post: BrianSoddingBoru4
  A thing about choice and laws in the USA ShinyCrystals 7 1696 October 15, 2023 at 10:14 am
Last Post: The Grand Nudger
  The hearings and a matter of law. Brian37 0 473 June 29, 2022 at 9:35 am
Last Post: Brian37
  Does Social Issues matter when deciding your political affiliation? T.J. 48 6599 April 21, 2022 at 9:36 am
Last Post: The Grand Nudger
  [Serious] The Mental Health Crisis T.J. 14 2212 December 1, 2021 at 12:35 pm
Last Post: brewer
  Does the US need a national hymm? brewer 11 1321 February 3, 2021 at 8:24 pm
Last Post: Divinity
  The Moral Obligation to Choose the Lesser Evil DeistPaladin 79 10856 September 25, 2020 at 3:44 pm
Last Post: Anomalocaris
  Black Lives Matter is not anti racist, but pro marxist Ramus932 25 3653 June 14, 2020 at 2:10 am
Last Post: Zepp
  Black lives matter WinterHold 49 6447 June 10, 2020 at 7:40 pm
Last Post: WinterHold
  Vote Blue, no matter who Silver 45 5657 February 9, 2020 at 5:31 am
Last Post: Prime Time



Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)