They also have a better structured family life, with a stricter code of family ethics. Kids don't just get left to their own devices with little or no parental control.
"Wouldn't they still just spend EVERYTHING on drugs and so be too gone to work, and so would still have to resort to crime to fund their habit?" it took a while for the hysterical post but we got there in the end. we spend a lot of money policing and seizing drugs with no success, so the police resources used in the drugs war could be used to target theft and robbery etc. "would the tax payers of this country be hppy to cough up for these peoples daily dose" we do this with methadone with little success because its cheaper than investing in more expensive detox clinics, which we could afford with the cash we would save "Would we suddenly be rid of such people if the drugs were legal?" no. but we have a drug problem in this country and criminalising it hasnt fixed it, its gotten worse. so lets try something different.
