All research and successful drug policy shows that treatment should be increased And law enforcement decreased while abolishing mandatory minimum sentences
Both are stupid.
Thats what makes this an A tier shitpost.
I’m willing to concede I have it wrong but I wouldn’t take it seriously. Just Karmanopoly goofing around with quality bait.
Indeed, very good stuff. Make my blood boil.
Trying to combat drug addiction through policing has been proven ineffective time and time again. You may want to rethink that one.
Came to say this! Drug addicts need help, not jail. Sure, if they commit a crime police should be involved, but it’s not going to cure their addiction!
Idk. I’m a public bus driver, am in pretty consistent contact with drug users. Not to mention living in amongst them in the poorer areas of tow. I’m not saying we should arrest them and give them lengthy sentences, but just leaving them on the street ain’t working out.
I think a mandatory “time out” in a facility is in order. At least long enough to work the drugs out of their system. Maybe then they can try for a better way with a little clearer head.
But some days it feels like I’m living in a post apocalypse mad Max type place. It’s bullshit that they’re allowed to just trash anyplace they are. There’s what’s best for them, and there’s what’s best for the rest of us. There’s gotta be something done.
Doing drugs is a crime tho.
This guy reminds teachers they forgot to give out homework…
I mean if you want to get specific what I really want is to remind police that doing drugs is illegal and they should focus on busting those people…instead of kids having fun on scooters
Why is doing drugs illegal?
In the US it’s so they can give black people felonies for being black so they can’t vote.
That’s literally what started the war on drugs. Well, blacks and hippies.
This is also why alcohol, which is a way more harmful drug to others than all of the illegal drugs[1], is legal.
[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21036393/
Findings: MCDA modelling showed that heroin, crack cocaine, and metamfetamine were the most harmful drugs to individuals (part scores 34, 37, and 32, respectively), whereas alcohol, heroin, and crack cocaine were the most harmful to others (46, 21, and 17, respectively). Overall, alcohol was the most harmful drug (overall harm score 72), with heroin (55) and crack cocaine (54) in second and third places.
Because they won’t share with me :(
Because of the law
It seems you’re stuck on Step 4 in Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development:
Do you mind me asking how old you are?
edit: never mind it says it in the meme you created.
“Drugs are illegal because drugs are illegal”
Kids having fun on scooters doing illegal things.
One is a felony the other a misdemeanor
Fun fact: Vancouver is in Canada, and in Canada there’s no such thing as a felony or a misdemeanor.
riding scooter at 12 seems to be illegal too in vancouver, and people have fun on drugs too, so seems to me both things are pretty much interchangeable in your argument
Busting drug addicts will do ZERO to help the drug and crime problems. Even law enforcers will tell you that.
Those problems are so much more complex, and require fundamental reforms in social policies, mental healthcare, education, youth programmes, city planning etc. And then there’s the issue of dealing with the gangs, smugglers and foreign organized syndicates bringing the stuff into the country.
Kids driving recklessly on scooters (which are often modified) are:
A) A danger to themselves
B) A danger to pedestrians they could crash into
C) A serious danger to cars that swerve to avoid them when they go out on the main road.
Being this stupid should be illegal.
So was giving shelter to undesirables in Nazi Germany. Laws are not inherently moral.
Putting someone in timeout maybe works for three year olds but it doesn’t work for adults even if you hold them there 1000 times longer. Restitution and rehabilitation is a significantly more effective solution and results in much lower recidivism. Only reason to lock someone in a box is if they present a significant danger to the public, and that’s not to punish them, but to protect others.
So is what the kids are doing. So…?
No is not
The temporary decriminalization of doing drugs in British Columbia expired in January 2026
So doing illicit drugs like crack or fentanyl on the streets is currently illegal again.
Again i said NO IS NOT
This isn’t new either. A song was written about it 25 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4L20t8Dvlg
love me some oldschool SOAD songs
Also the cops handing out traffic tickets, and the cops doing narcotics investigations are different people.
I read it as they are both bad things the police enjoys, but seeing OPs comments I don’t think that was the intent.
If you arrest the users they’ll give up the dealers
That’s policing 101
That’s copaganda 101
FTFY
Treat it like the public health issue it is, not something to involve the judicial/carceral systems
You’re stupid
I want you to know that, but I want you to feel it, where it really counts
You’re a shitty person because of your stupidity
You could just be stupid, but you’re that awful combination of stupid and shitty
Arresting drug addicts in the war on drugs is part of how the US ended up with 25% of the world’s prison population. End result? Same amount of drugs.
Criminalizing drug use does literally nothing except lead to the death of democracy.
Your percentage is off.
Recent sources put US prison population at ~2 million, with about that much under other supervision conditions.
US population is at ~342.75 million people.
Good call, got some wires crossed. The US contributes to 25% of the entire global prison population
And is ineffective. Didn’t you watch The Wire?
No I watched breaking bad
They went after the one drug user (badger) and eventually it led all the way up to the Heisenberg guy
dumbest comments I’ve seen all day are all from you
I’ve had this user tagged as “anti-science troll” for ages.
Last time was from just a comment chain under a post but it was just as bad as this whole thing.
I was just thinking the same thing.
The farther down this thread I go the dumber they get
I’m just amazed how many people are on the side of the drug addicts
It’s almost like drug addicts are still people who deserve to be treated like people. Throwing them in jail and subjecting them to police brutality does not help anyone except the fake numbers game of the police. If you really want to help people with addictions you have to be willing to work with them and treat the problems at the source rather than resort to punitive measures for no reasons.
I’m amazed there is still people that think prohibition works.
addicts need help not prison
Do you not remember his name?
Say my name
Mr. White?
SCIENCE! YEAH!
Ya Heisenberg
No no no. This is just building a prison pipeline.
That widely known to not work that way.
Ok bootlicker
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Well if they would fix traffic infrastructure to support bicycles and other alternative transports they would have less of a problem with this.
Drug problem is a healthcare issue, not a crime issue.
You get people off drugs by building a society where people aren’t being oppressed and used as slaves. Not by putting them in jail and making their life worse.
Kids on the other hand aren’t fully mature and don’t realize that ‘just’ 30mph on a scooter can lead to a deadly crash pretty easily
Teach the kids to use a scooter properly, all across asia children ride electrics without incident, but I am constantly hearing how dangerous they are back in America where barely anyone rides scooters.
Is that how Singapore got rid of their drug problems?
Yeah, when I think Singapore, I think utopia with no inequality or social pressures. The only thing bad is those pesky druggies that do simply because they’re bad people and want to do the bad drugs.
There are no drugs in bar sing se obviously.
Probably by caning them to death when they spit their gum on the ground.
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I hate the police like everybody elese, but why huntig addicts? They do nothing except to themself… But a 12yo on a scooter is mostly dangerous.
Addicts will steal your shit to pay for their drugs
I wish.
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Dont fight drug use, fight drug distribution and the root problems why people are on the street taking drugs
Follow the money
Drug use is a social problem. If I offered you a huge bag of fentanyl for free right now, would you take it? What conditions in your life would make you more likely to accept it? Lets address the things which cause those conditions for other people.
It sure is a problem but not in any way can it be solved by the police.
Well, it depends. Do I have to pay for the fentanyl? Because if not, Imma take that bag of drugs to the hospital so they can dispose of it in a safe manner.
If you have a bag of fentanyl to give out then putting you in jail solves the problem in my view
You missed the point of the question entirely. Are you just playing dumb here?
Remember that time we legalized cannabis and it had literally zero impact on society? Let’s do that with the rest of them too.
OP, did a cop give you a ticket for riding a scooter?
No they gave a 12 yr old a ticket… Well actually hey gave it to his father
Maybe they shouldn’t have been doing something illegal. 🤔
Maybe unjust laws shouldn’t be obeyed
If only you had the brain capacity to notice your own hypocrisy…
Lol I am shocked. Yall believe he is for real? Guy is troll
There is no justice in punishing people who’ve become addicted, and are just using to satisfy the addiction.
You know who becomes addicted? The kid who runs/drives/rides in front of a car and ends up on major pain meds. Maybe ticketing parents who let their kids do that, without regard for the evidence of its dangers is a good idea after all.
Exactly. Not sure you’ll put 2 and two together, tho.
first good point you’ve made anywhere in your own post’s comments.
Tell that to the kid in my city who got run over by a semi truck a couple of weeks ago or the dozens per week who are admitted to the ER with scooter and ebike injuries.
Well, sorry they gave your dad a ticket
Love the username.
We are Alpharius
So they did something good for once: traffic education.
So … your classmate?
Why would drug addicts give up their dealers? For one, they still need someone to distribute them drugs. Secondly snitching out dealers is pretty dangerous. Thirdly, why? What incentive does an addict have? Not to go to prison? That is often a better choice than staying on the streets. In prison at least you have a place to sleep, it’s warm and you get food three times a day. I don’t know the prison conditions in Canada. But where I live, I’d a hundred percent rather go to prison than stay on the street.
What if it was life in prison?
Places like Singapore don’t have drug problems because they deal with it like it should be
Why not just shoot everyone who ever thought the word “weed” in the head? That’ll clearly improve society. Then your kid can finally kickflip their scooter at 30mph and kill an elderly person in peace.
Freedom will always lead to more crime. If we want freedom, we will have to accept crime.
Also just because something is not visible, it does not mean it’s not there. China for example appears to have no homelessness, but that is simply untrue. It has a major problem, but makes sure the majority of people and tourists don’t get to see it. Singapur may not in fact have a drug problem, but if that is due to the radical approach of criminilisation or due to broad wealth of most inhabitants cannot be seen from outside.
Also all studies show that harsh punishments are actually detrimental to battling criminal behaviour.
Except for Singapore
Punishment in Singapore are hard for drug dealers, not drug addicts.
Singapore separates low-level abusers from traffickers, bringing them to mandatory rehabilitation and supervision centers.
Why would they give 12y old tickets? Don’t they have any newer ones?
They don’t update the forms often. Huge issue with the printer.
Scooters aren’t inherently more dangerous. But people don’t take their safety seriously. They don’t wear helmets and protection. Resulting in more injuries and TBIs.