You get people off drugs by building a society where people aren't being oppressed and used as slaves. Not by putting them in jail and making their life worse.
Kids on the other hand aren't fully mature and don't realize that 'just' 30mph on a scooter can lead to a deadly crash pretty easily
Teach the kids to use a scooter properly, all across asia children ride electrics without incident, but I am constantly hearing how dangerous they are back in America where barely anyone rides scooters.
Is that how Singapore got rid of their drug problems?
Yeah, when I think Singapore, I think utopia with no inequality or social pressures. The only thing bad is those pesky druggies that do simply because they're bad people and want to do the bad drugs.
Trying to combat drug addiction through policing has been proven ineffective time and time again. You may want to rethink that one.
Came to say this! Drug addicts need help, not jail. Sure, if they commit a crime police should be involved, but it’s not going to cure their addiction!
Doing drugs is a crime tho.
So was giving shelter to undesirables in Nazi Germany. Laws are not inherently moral.
Being this stupid should be illegal.
So is what the kids are doing. So...?
Also the cops handing out traffic tickets, and the cops doing narcotics investigations are different people.
Why would they give 12y old tickets? Don’t they have any newer ones?
Why would drug addicts give up their dealers? For one, they still need someone to distribute them drugs. Secondly snitching out dealers is pretty dangerous. Thirdly, why? What incentive does an addict have? Not to go to prison? That is often a better choice than staying on the streets. In prison at least you have a place to sleep, it's warm and you get food three times a day. I don't know the prison conditions in Canada. But where I live, I'd a hundred percent rather go to prison than stay on the street.
What if it was life in prison?
Places like Singapore don't have drug problems because they deal with it like it should be
Why not just shoot everyone who ever thought the word "weed" in the head? That'll clearly improve society. Then your kid can finally kickflip their scooter at 30mph and kill an elderly person in peace.
Remember that time we legalized cannabis and it had literally zero impact on society? Let's do that with the rest of them too.
Counterpoint: parents should be given tickets for endangering their child's lives by giving them something that can cause death or greivous injury - calling it a "toy" that goes 30+ mph ridden on public roads with no training, license, or obeying traffic signs and signals.
One of these days it's going to be a lawmakers kid that is going to get turned into a meat crayon. Then we might just get some reasonable legislation. I hate that it pretty much has to come down to many children dying for meaningful change to take place.
USA reports 11 deaths under 16 and Canada 10
So 21 deaths in what 15 or 20 years these have been around
Probably around 1 per year
How many kids have been killed by drug users or drug dealers... probably more than 1 per Year
USA alone has so many drug related shootings they probably can't even reliably track how many kids get shot
in this case the police are correct
Dont fight drug use, fight drug distribution and the root problems why people are on the street taking drugs
Follow the money
Drug use is a social problem. If I offered you a huge bag of fentanyl for free right now, would you take it? What conditions in your life would make you more likely to accept it? Lets address the things which cause those conditions for other people.
It sure is a problem but not in any way can it be solved by the police.
Well, it depends. Do I have to pay for the fentanyl? Because if not, Imma take that bag of drugs to the hospital so they can dispose of it in a safe manner.
If you have a bag of fentanyl to give out then putting you in jail solves the problem in my view
You missed the point of the question entirely. Are you just playing dumb here?
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