Columbia University professor, admitted heroin user, says legalization of all drugs is 'fundamental right'

[Shadow2]

Columbia University professor, admitted heroin user, says legalization of all drugs is 'fundamental right'

A heroin-using psychology professor at New York City’s Columbia University is laying out a constitutional argument for legalizing recreational drugs in his latest book.

www.foxnews.com

 

[GOPerfect]

Make legal all drugs. Go right ahead. Cancel all EMT's. No more Narcan. No fire and recuse to arrive on scene. No first aid to the crackheads and Junkies. No welfare benefits to users. No life assistance at all.

 

[Darth]

In "Drug use for Grown-ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear" (Penguin Press), Dr. Carl Hart calls for the legalization of all drugs, arguing that it is a fundamental American right for responsible adults to decide what to put into their own bodies.

I could not possibly agree more.


Did I miss the outrage?

 

[spat]

Make legal all drugs. Go right ahead. Cancel all EMT's. No more Narcan. No fire and recuse to arrive on scene. No first aid to the crackheads and Junkies. No welfare benefits to users. No life assistance at all.

The associated population drop will solve all the pollution / global whatever problems all by itself.

Then the rest of us can get back to living our lives unencumbered by idiots.

 

[GOPerfect]

I was never a fan of this legal drug thing, I have grown. I have altered my opinions.

Let them shoot up all they want. They will die. A very high number of junkies will in fact overdose, if no one is there to save them like we have today, more will die. The more that die, the less junkies there will be. I will work itself out in no time.

 

[Darth]

Right.

Of course reality doesn't jibe with that, but if that helps you come around to understand bodily autonomy I'm all for it.

 

[spat]

Right.

Of course reality doesn't jibe with that, but if that helps you come around to understand bodily autonomy I'm all for it.

Well, we will have 2 kinds of junkies left then. The high functioning ones who hold down a high stress wall street job between cocaine binges, and the dead ones.

Neither of those groups bother me.

Sure, there will be a lot of people who will think they can be in the 1st group, but find themselves in the 2nd instead, but that's called life.

 

[libertysnake]

I honestly don't care what people do with their bodies.

What I do care about is when they break into my house at 5AM looking for money for their crippling heroin addiction.

 

[GOPerfect]

I honestly don't care what people do with their bodies.

What I do care about is when they break into my house at 5AM looking for money for their crippling heroin addiction.

That and I care how much wasted tax payer money is used to cure and save this garbage people. Yeah, I see them as garbage.

 

[spat]

I honestly don't care what people do with their bodies.

What I do care about is when they break into my house at 5AM looking for money for their crippling heroin addiction.

Shoot them.

Then they will be in the second group of junkies that don't bother anyone.

 

[Darth]

I honestly don't care what people do with their bodies.

What I do care about is when they break into my house at 5AM looking for money for their crippling heroin addiction.

Are you good with people breaking in to your house for other reasons though? Maybe just a quick rape?

 

[Darth]

BTW, your messiah Rush was right in that group of garbage by your definition.

I don't agree, and it's clear most on here have zero concept of drug addiction, but let's be clear.

 

[Criticalt]

I dont care what people do to their bodies but the people who say "drugs are a victimless crime" are absurd.
Im not going into it again but I know just about as much about junkies as anyone.
Besides the fading out while driving and killing people and the HUGE amount of resources needed to keep these people alive, the worst issues are with family.
Does anyone here know any families who have to have dead bolts on ALL of their INSIDE doors?
Does anyone know families with restraining orders against their children?
Does anyone know families who turn their phones off when they go to sleep?
These are just a few things families of junkies go through.....and they are victims.

There is a huge difference between a weekend cocaine user and a 15 bag a day heroin user. The later is the problem.
Cocaine is rarely fatal and very difficult to overdose, its action in the body is very short lived. And, if you get bunk coke, you just get pissed.....if you get bunk heroin, you can die quickly.
Im one of the people who believe if you smoke cigarettes you should not get Medicaid, and im ever more strict on drugs.
Many people smoke for decades without any medical issues.
Not the same with opiates, especially heroin......you WILL have many medical issues.
From overdose to abscesses, you will have a lot of medical issues.
Anyways, make drug use legal but with caveats..... No medical assistance, no driving privilege, to welfare.......
Drug use is a choice, choices have consequences...... Period.

 

[Steal2B]

The associated population drop will solve all the pollution / global whatever problems all by itself.

Then the rest of us can get back to living our lives unencumbered by idiots.

 

[GOPerfect]

It is funny, most of the ones that say this garbage should be legal are the same ones that say that we still need the narcan and the EMT support.

I say, cannot have it both ways. I love the tards that say none of us know what we are talking about, we cannot know what it is like and the such.

I do not need to understand or comprehend what these misfits are going through, I do not care. I see the damage the junkies do. I see the outcomes of the crackheads. First hand, daily and personally I see what they do to society and the their family and friends.

Not assisting them at times would be the best thing for them. Narcan is not a lifesaving drug, it is a tool to enable the users.

 

[fresch]

The founders of this U.S.A. used any thing they wanted to.
Yes, they had drugs way back then.

 

[GOPerfect]

The founders of this U.S.A. used any thing they wanted to.
Yes, they had drugs way back then.

Sure. And no one saved them when they indulged too much.

Choices are that, choices. You chose to use, you do it knowing society will not save you.

 

[dsdmmat]

The associated population drop will solve all the pollution / global whatever problems all by itself.

Then the rest of us can get back to living our lives unencumbered by idiots.

the Resulting death toll will eclipse COVID in the news in the blink of an eye we could solve 2 issues at once.

 

[SonOfSun]

That and I care how much wasted tax payer money is used to cure and save this garbage people. Yeah, I see them as garbage.

So you're ok with death to save tax money?

 

[Criticalt]

So you're ok with death to save tax money?

There are huge differences here.
Im all for paying for people with cancer, heart attacks, strokes, MS, auto immune disease......
If these people had a hand in their own illness.....smoking, obesity...... Then steps should be taken to solve their issues. If they attempt to help themselves, im for helping them.
Junkies are different.......
I have a lot of experience with junkies and their families, my parents have worked with them for FIVE decades.
Im ok with helping a first or even second time junkie.....opiates are VERY difficult to overcome but it is possible.
For the lifetime junkie who has overdosed multiple times, have spent weeks or months in the hospital or multiple stays at a rehab........stop all support.
The vast majority of heroin junkies CAN kick the habit but almost none do.
Death from opiate overdose is strongly under reported in this country.
Many overdoses are labeled as "heart attacks" or "strokes" for the same reason flu deaths are reported as "covid" deaths......money. States do not like paying for "illnesses" that have very low success rates.......which opiate rehabs have, very low success rates......very low. If the real numbers of overdose deaths were tallied, states would see this as a losing battle.

I need to add that MOST smokers quit smoking after a heart attack or lung cancer diagnosis and most obese people lose weight after a heart attack.
Almost ZERO heroin junkies quit after an overdose.

 

[GOPerfect]

So you're ok with death to save tax money?

Yep. I am more than okay with allowing people to die due to their poor choices..

No where is it written that the government has the responsibility to save people.

People make choices, no one is forced to chose the life of a junkie or crackhead.

Should not be the tax payers that save them.

You want to save them? Find them and use your money to assist them.

 

[Criticalt]

Yep. I am more than okay with allowing people to die due to their poor choices..

No where is it written that the government has the responsibility to save people.

People make choices, no one is forced to chose the life of a junkie or crackhead.

Should not be the tax payers that save them.

You want to save them? Find them and use your money to assist them.

This right here.....
If the government stopped paying for junkies, charities would be formed for the people who feel like helping.....without being forced to help.

 

[Darth]

I dont care what people do to their bodies but the people who say "drugs are a victimless crime" are absurd.
Im not going into it again but I know just about as much about junkies as anyone.
Besides the fading out while driving and killing people and the HUGE amount of resources needed to keep these people alive, the worst issues are with family.
Does anyone here know any families who have to have dead bolts on ALL of their INSIDE doors?
Does anyone know families with restraining orders against their children?
Does anyone know families who turn their phones off when they go to sleep?
These are just a few things families of junkies go through.....and they are victims.

There is a huge difference between a weekend cocaine user and a 15 bag a day heroin user. The later is the problem.
Cocaine is rarely fatal and very difficult to overdose, its action in the body is very short lived. And, if you get bunk coke, you just get pissed.....if you get bunk heroin, you can die quickly.
Im one of the people who believe if you smoke cigarettes you should not get Medicaid, and im ever more strict on drugs.
Many people smoke for decades without any medical issues.
Not the same with opiates, especially heroin......you WILL have many medical issues.
From overdose to abscesses, you will have a lot of medical issues.
Anyways, make drug use legal but with caveats..... No medical assistance, no driving privilege, to welfare.......
Drug use is a choice, choices have consequences...... Period.

Drugs are a victimless crime.

You have done what everyone that tries to argue against them do. Dishonestly conflate multiple actions and label them as one.

This is the same as saying "gun ownership is not a victimless crime because Sandy Hook."

 

[Robin]

But you have to re-context it to make the author look bad, thats what the looney left does. It makes them feeeeeeeeel morally superior.
Robin

 

[tirwin1]

So you're ok with death to save tax money?

Let's turn it around - is there any limit on tax dollars you would implement to save these people? Or do you think first responders should be giving out narcan like candy?

 

[Darth]

Can we just admit that taxation is theft and not pay for any of it?

When you have to bring something else in like taxes to justify why something "ought to be illegal", you're looking in the wrong spot.

And if you do want to go that route, not sure if you are aware, but the "war on drugs" isn't free.

 

[dc9mm]

WHY drugs should NOT be legal. $$$$$ Most people on drugs can not hold down a job. Some can but most not. Even if legal they will need money for those drugs. It DRIVES CRIME. Crime kills people. Drugs are addictive so they will not be able to control themselves and will commit crime for that addiction.

 

[Darth]

WHY drugs should NOT be legal. $$$$$ Most people on drugs can not hold down a job. Some can but most not. Even if legal they will need money for those drugs. It DRIVES CRIME. Crime kills people. Drugs are addictive so they will not be able to control themselves and will commit crime for that addiction.

Most people on drugs hold jobs.

Plenty hold well paying jobs.

Crimes against others is already illegal.

 

[Robin]

This right here.....
If the government stopped paying for junkies, charities would be formed for the people who feel like helping.....without being forced to help.

How many gonna walk the high wire if they take the net away.
Robin

 

[spat]

The founders of this U.S.A. used any thing they wanted to.
Yes, they had drugs way back then.

Up into the early 1900's you could mail order prefilled syringes of morphine from the Sears Roebuck catalog. Also, full auto Tommy Guns COD.

They were the Amazon of the day.

You could also fit the entire code of federal regulations and laws on one shelf.