How to solve the drug problem in Santa Clarita! (sales, crimes)

[thefury]

Guess What,

We made the news again, the LA Times.

Man burned in Santa Clarita explosion at marijuana grow house.



Santa Clarita is already known as the Meth capital of CA. I am sick and tired of hearing of all the drugs that are in the public schools. Something needs to be done. The more that people pretend this problem does not exist, the worse the problem becomes. There is nothing for our young people to do, so they turn to drugs.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by thefury

Santa Clarita is already known as the Meth capital of CA.

I've never heard this and I've lived in Southern California for 47 of the past 51 years.

[Fontucky]

I'm trying to connect an explosion with growing MJ.

[Curmudgeon]

Hot shots!

[UserX]

Originally Posted by thefury

Santa Clarita is already known as the Meth capital of CA.

LOL, you're joking... right?

[00molavi]

I live in SC and kids are in High school here. It is as good as it gets nowadays as public schools go. I am not sure when SC got to be the meth capital, I am sure there are quite a few people abusing stuff-show me somewhere that this is not true.

As a general rule, it makes sense to make drugs legal, regulate and tax their sale. This will eliminate a lot of other issues related to gangs and kids being forced to sell drugs. Then you educate the youth on it-as opposed to denying that there is a problem. Think of it like alcohol or cigarettes; they are still an issue, but you rarely see someone get shot at because of it.

[killer2021]

As a general rule, it makes sense to make drugs legal, regulate and tax their sale. This will eliminate a lot of other issues related to gangs and kids being forced to sell drugs. Then you educate the youth on it-as opposed to denying that there is a problem. Think of it like alcohol or cigarettes; they are still an issue, but you rarely see someone get shot at because of it.

Yup, exactly. The basic ethics behind this logic is that a person who uses drugs is not innocent. A person who gets shot, killed or otherwise harmed by drug influenced violence is innocent. As a first step, we need to protect the innocent. Legalizing, taxing and regulate does exactly that. It gets rid of the violence by getting rid of the black market. The revenue generated from drug sales then goes to pay for anti-drug education and/or drug rehabilitation programs.

Anti-drug education is the key to solving the drug problem. Also changing society's view of drugs as being, "very bad" is key.

[notmeofficer]

Originally Posted by killer2021

Yup, exactly. The basic ethics behind this logic is that a person who uses drugs is not innocent. A person who gets shot, killed or otherwise harmed by drug influenced violence is innocent. As a first step, we need to protect the innocent. Legalizing, taxing and regulate does exactly that. It gets rid of the violence by getting rid of the black market. The revenue generated from drug sales then goes to pay for anti-drug education and/or drug rehabilitation programs.

Anti-drug education is the key to solving the drug problem. Also changing society's view of drugs as being, "very bad" is key.

Complete and utter hogwash.... drugs by their very nature create unstable people.. look at the drug crimes that are skyrocketing because of MJ in our communities

How about a more rigorous stance on drugs.. with better drug abuse programs and less tolerance in our society for such a selfish hedonistic self serving activity

We dont need more dumbed down people.. more brain deprived juveniles who then become slow learner adults.. we need less

Hows legalization of alcohol worked for us... poorly.. or not at all

Execute drug dealers and I think drug abuse would slow down rather quickly

[.highnlite]

Originally Posted by notmeofficer

Complete and utter hogwash.... drugs by their very nature create unstable people.. look at the drug crimes that are skyrocketing because of MJ in our communities

How about a more rigorous stance on drugs.. with better drug abuse programs and less tolerance in our society for such a selfish hedonistic self serving activity

We dont need more dumbed down people.. more brain deprived juveniles who then become slow learner adults.. we need less

Hows legalization of alcohol worked for us... poorly.. or not at all

Execute drug dealers and I think drug abuse would slow down rather quickly

Mammals like a buzz, as long as they do, chemicals will be used to get that buzz. I do find it humorous that some are all up in arms over illegal drugs, which kill, maybe 30,000 a year all told.

Alcohol kills around 500,000 every year.

Nicotine kills around 500,000 every year.

Our national priorities are a bit confused.

[expatCA]

Originally Posted by notmeofficer

Complete and utter hogwash.... drugs by their very nature create unstable people.. look at the drug crimes that are skyrocketing because of MJ in our communities

How about a more rigorous stance on drugs.. with better drug abuse programs and less tolerance in our society for such a selfish hedonistic self serving activity

We dont need more dumbed down people.. more brain deprived juveniles who then become slow learner adults.. we need less

Hows legalization of alcohol worked for us... poorly.. or not at all

Execute drug dealers and I think drug abuse would slow down rather quickly

True but it won't work anymore than legalizing them. Underage kids will still get them illegally as no one wants legal drugs for kids except absolute degenerates and drug sellers.

Has legal sales of alcohol and cigarettes helped the young??????? Nope.