I did not fight the 2am liquor license deal because even if some go home if one bar closes-enough just go to another and it is not fair. And more policing is almost silly, drunk people are loud and so is having a few cops questioning them…in fact likely adds to the duration and sometimes intensifies their volume. And they should not be going to a car anyway.

As far as the bathrooms being kept open (another of the plans to appease residents)-I wholeheartedly agree and don’t care who uses them, but the reason they close them is to keep homeless people out I would imagine. I’d rather be bothered by a person with no place to go than someone with the ability to spend something like $7 a drink to get plastered and drive home from here and still pee on my house and disturb my peace. If someone has no toilet I can’t really complain.

The argument for medical use of marijuana is also never even valid if it is not able to be classified based on type. If it is for medical use the user needs to know what they are getting…not even just that nothing else is in it-but like any drug-some strains may be better at the intended aid purpose. I rarely ever see that argument made. Just letting people NOT get arrested does not truly serve their needs either.

On the controlled drug issue-this is also a sign of bigger issues than simply the dealer/addict. Many do get addicted to these drugs-often in treating real problems and in many ways abuse is increased because there is a market not only in recreational use but in selling to those who can’t afford a doctor to get a prescription-so the drugs are not being given in a therapeutic way under the care of a doctor but used in desperation and without advice.

It creates the market, not to mention those who have health care are given these scripts very easily. I myself cannot take more than one before getting sick but after many surgeries am always given a larger rx even though I say I will only take one. My mother has also. No we do not sell them, but we also do not use them. A waste. And yes I have asked for smaller scripts-they always tell me to take it “just in case”.

Those who have create a surplus that supplies those who have not, and these would easily be available to most young people in middle class and affluent homes-and easily misused as recreational drugs. As if anyone can believe these “good kids” do not pretty much throughout our recent history drink and do drugs for recreation and would sell what Mom or Dad won’t miss from the drug cabinet of unused scripts.

If we decriminalized drugs and offered treatment instead of incarceration, maybe we could get a handle on our nation’s narcotic problem. Portugal did it in 2001 and teen drug use dropped. Why can’t we?

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1893946,00.html