I see comments on here sometimes that are like "saw a homeless guy doing drugs in public today. disgusting, we need to get that away" "i cant believe the sheer gall of these people doing drugs out on the street" and like people rightly point out that just removing them does not actually solve anything and people need help but like something nobody ever brings up is: so what. are they making you do the drugs? are they going to your kids and hiding drugs in their lunchboxes. who cares if some random guy does drugs. like i get the problems that actually affect people are like, litter and people being unhinged and getting in others' faces and stuff, but a lot of the argument seems to be that the act of witnessing drug use at all is an inherant offense to the psyche of the public. who goddamn cares.

edit: your comments have convinced me. lock em all up baby. only way to solve the problem i say.

edit edit: ok that was disingenuous i apologize. i just see someone doing drugs in a poverty-stricken environment and i think the first impulse should be to make sure theyre okay if anything. its weird to me that other people dont think that way.

history shows that people rely on hard drugs as an addiction when their life is going terribly, and more often than not people who are comfortable and fulfilled dont feel the need to take drugs outside of an exploratory setting. we focus too much on "treating" the symptom and not the cause, and the fact is people, all the people who are disgusted by drug use in and of itself, view addiction as a personal failing rather than a result of trying to feel normal amidst a terrible life where people have no options. i do not trust anyone who says that jail time is a good solution to the drug crisis.