I am of the personal belief that the government should not criminally prosecute victimless crimes
I grew up in Vancouver. There has always been serious hard drug problems there. I personally knew decent middle class kids who got hooked on crack or meth and were destroyed. A beautiful young woman who became a crack ho and ended up in prison for robbery, and a doctor's two sons who had everything who died in an alley from meth.
They effect everyone around them on their way down.
Both cases almost destroyed the families. The woman had a crack addicted baby that she dumped on her parents. The boys turned into petty street criminals and stole from their family everything they could. Both the woman and the boys progressed to occasional violent crimes to support their habits.
It is never just the user that is affected.
Addicts are not rational. Traffickers are not supplying normal reasonable people. They are preying on people who are sick.
There is a broad spectrum of drug trafficking.
A few plants in your basement for a weekend jount is no big deal.
95 kilos of coke is a bad thing, there is nothing good about coke.
I think think it is cruel to imprison attractive young women in their childbearing years and deny them the opportunity of motherhood.
But imprisoning ugly ones is okay?
What about guys of the same age?