Society won’t remain civilized because those addicts you jail are constantly being replace by the young children whose parents were abusive or addicts.
Example daddy goes to jail for selling small time dope to keep his habit and family fed. Them kids life goes even worse to shit because his new daddy is the local street gang.
This problem has nothing to do with drugs. This drug problem is a result of the death of the American dream; all the increased drugs crime and suicide is simply a symptom of that main problem which is the death of the American dream.
I’ll add that rehabs and jails are full of drugs and new drug dealers to connect with.
I understand all that... but people's problems should not be splayed out in the open in the streets, in public transit, in children's parks, in common areas. Progressives think that these things
should be visible so then society will deal with them, except the average person has no agency to change these massive social problems, and it only breeds resentment. The philosophy of "not suffering behind closed doors" is noble but in practice it does fuck all.
Today I couldn't even withdraw money from my bank because four people, FOUR, were camped out in the ATM lobby before the bank opened, one of them passed out with a pipe in his hand. Like honestly... fuck off. I'm totally aware of the irony of the worst off people passed out at a financial institution - I GET IT - but life still has to go on. People need to function.
BC is a building a massive mental institution. That should help. I think a lot of these people have serious mental disorders and should be in long-term care. Others just don't give a fuck, they will shoot up needles right at a bus stop where people are waiting to go to work. I think it should be illegal. BC government tried to make it illegal, then do-gooders went to the supreme court and got it overturned "because harm reduction." All the law tried to say is that you can't shoot up or smoke crack at playgrounds, and progressives even wanted to stop that.
The west coast cities are all falling because of lawlessness and progressive bullshit. Downtown San Fransisco is being gutted of major businesses. Here in Vancouver, 6000 crimes were committed by the same 50 homeless people in the past five years. I'm not exaggerating, this is a literal statistic. The do-gooder revolving door justice system cuts them loose "because harm reduction." It has to end. I CAN'T WAIT for a change in government. We need conservative leadership so badly. Progressivism has gone off the rails.
