In order to solve the drug problems we have in the USA, we have to enforce harsher sentencing for drug traffickers and drug dealers, agreed?

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3-5 years in prison for drug dealing or drug trafficking is ridiculous… this will always be seen as an easy way to make money because the risk isn’t too high as we constantly let drug dealers go before they even finish their sentencing.
don’t punish the drug addicts or people abusing these drugs but punish the hell out of the people that exploit these people like drug dealers and drug traffickers.

25 years to life in prison.

This will make the risk of drug trafficking too high for anybody to even try it.

In order to solve the drug problems we have in the USA, we have to enforce harsher sentencing for drug traffickers and drug dealers, agreed?

ShadezMcgee · Accepted Answer

Honestly, I say just decriminalize it. Let drug dealers try to outdo each other and addicts will be forced to either OD or get clean. Oversaturated market lowers demand.

DARKCLOUD1945X · Accepted Answer

HOW ABOUT CLOSING THE SOUTHERN BORDER NUMBER ONE THING TO DO. Then anyone dealing drugs 50 years hard labor NO DEALS

Anonymous · Answer

Me: laughs in reality

Iran has had the DEATH PENALTY for drug related crimes since the 50's and they admit it has done literally nothing to decrease drug trafficking. There are 29 other countries across the world that equally have the death penalty for drug related crimes where public beheadings and firing squads are implemented and guess what, they STILL have drug problems.

Reagan went guns blazing into America with that crazy war on drugs thinking rounding up thousands would surely get rid of the problem, but criminals only adapt because the money is just too good. You have to understand that you cannot really "punish" someone who is already at the bottom rung of life which a lot of drug dealers and users are. They are often from poor communities, with lack of job opportunities (or ones that would pay comparable to selling drugs), and they are often corrupted at young ages. The only thing you will accomplish is the same for what happened in the 80s---tons of people in already over flowing jail systems to the point where once again, all we do is round them up and let them go because guess who is paying for these jail stints---you the taxpayer. There has never been a simple black and white answer to the drug problems in the world because so many factors are involved that people fail to see when they seek so called simple solutions that never work.

MarkRet · Answer

We'll never get rid of the drug problem completely. Some people are messed up and just do what they do, despite the facts being out there. Same thing with alcoholics and smokers. If you want to really hurt the drug dealers and cartels, then decriminalize the drugs. That would take a HUGE bite out of their profits, and probably lower the crime rate as the druggies could get their stuff easier and cheaper.

VanillaSalt · Answer

Accountabilities gone these days. What consequence you thinks gonna stop druggies? Every druggie deserves to die right now. All of them from the 12 yr old boy to the 70 yr old woman.

No person relying on drugs is living any life worth their life’s value.

DryGermanGuy · Answer

Riiiight. Because the already drastic "war against drugs" has been such a success so far, hell, let's bring in more of the same! It will be an even greater success!
'Murrica tries so hard to be "the land of the free", while incarcerating 2,5 million people in jails/prisons. You think incarcerating a million more will make the beacon shine even brighter? /sarcasm

KelleyNice · Answer

The best and perhaps only way to solve the drug problems is to abolish all drug laws. Without the drug laws, drugs would be inexpensive and drug crime would go to near zero. Even drug usage would fall, because there would be no drug pushers enticing children to use drugs. Some people would still use drugs because, when they are in pain, they will do anything to eliminate the pain. Other people would experiment but at no greater rate than currently do.

ChrisMaster69 · Answer

Compulsory drug tests for every lawyer, accountant, politician, doctor, surgeon, actor, musician etc.

anyone that is found to have any in system class A (cocaine, heroin types) instant jail for 2 years and not allowed to be in their career again.

it’s middle class and above that keep shit going.

TransAm85 · Answer

You can't blame the dealers really. They wouldn't do it if Americans weren't such addicts. And it really isn't low income, poor, urban area people that use. It's generally middle/upper class, suburban, white people that are the cocaine, heroin, and pill addicts. I've seen it. I've done narcotics before in my youth, but never the crazy stuff and I always had to go to the hood to get my shit.

Aerissa_Jade · Answer

Problem is, low level dealers don't think they'll ever get caught so they do not even think of the penalty or even know what it is until they get busted and then are like, say what in court.

I'm not necessarily opposed to it, but I see it as a two part solution. Get the dealers and the users, rather than focus on one side.

Anonymous · Answer

wow you have a lot of photos of seized drugs but no i dont agree.
Its absurd to make something a crime that only harms the person doing it.
you might aswell criminalise masturbation.
But you're so far gone i won't waste my breath.

i typed drugs into the search box which led me here.
why you ask?
i want to know why people snort drugs?
its far more civilised to stir it into your coffee.
and enjoy it leisurely like a gentleman instead furtively snorting it like fn a peasant

RedThread · Answer

Harsher sentences does little to reduce crime. This is a fact. It has no deterrent effect and it doesn't reduce rates of re-offending after release. Most of us have this false notion that if we increase punishment it decreases crime and that is a completely unfounded myth. The only thing it does is keeps them away from the rest of the population.

Anonymous · Answer

No you punish the seller and the addicts. You force the addict to get clean or prison 3-5 years.

Stop giving people options and banging them. People know drugs are bad since the 70s.

If we gotta get rid of some junkies and there crappy DNA then so be it

Anonymous · Answer

We've been doing that for the past 40 years of fighting this stupid drug war and it hasn't worked. So what makes you think it's going to work now?

In Indonesia you get either life in prison or the death penalty for drug trafficking, and yet people still do it.

The answer is to decriminalize drugs and treat addiction as a medical problem, not a criminal problem.

josephinelcajon · Answer

There is a shocking documentary by Gordon Ramsey yes the famous chief on cocaine use in his restaurants. It is a must see and is done extremely well. I found it streaming on Discovery+

Anonymous · Answer

Just decriminalize everything, and let the addicts kill themselves by OD-ing. No more customers, no more drugs. Quit wasting taxpayer dollars on people that are essentially commiting suicide, anyway.

Zeus_66 · Answer

Once caught, arrested, charged, tried, convicted, sentenced to death. Plain and simple. Only one appeal 30 days after sentencing, then straight to the gallows.

exitseven · Answer

It is a complicated issue but sentences should be much harsher. Lets face it, these people are unredeemable and they should be taken off the streets for a long time.

Guy13 · Answer

How do you do that when the Government is making Weed the Tobacco replacement "Cash Crop"

NathanDavis · Answer

just ban one dollar bills... burn them all, and problem solve no more fentanyl crisis... lol

Iron_Man · Answer

Maybe they should get whipping many on the back lashings Instead of high prison sentences and that way the fear of physical violence maybe will cut back on the drug trafficking

jshm2 · Answer

Don't be daft.  It's supply and demand. Less demand, less need for supply.

TheMajesticKing777 · Answer

No matter how big the sentence is, the money will always be worth it to these people

Texaskid1 · Answer

Legalize everything.  That will stop this madness ovenight.

FunkyMonkee · Answer

Closing off the border would be a HUGE help!!

Anonymous · Answer

The drugs are being imported by the CIA, so no; you need to remove the mafia running your country.

Jltakk · Answer

Or we could let the economy correct the problem. Decriminalize drugs, and oversaturate the markets. Demand will decrease and those who don't do drugs will continue to not use them.

EarthRealm · Answer

As Long as It doesn’t effect me  You can do Your drugs.

msc545 · Answer

No. This is an expensive, ineffective solution to a very complicated problem. Just legalize all drugs and watch the prices bottom out instead.

EnglishEuropean · Answer

If your society wasn't such a shitshow people wouldn't need to use drugs to escape from reality.

Still-alive · Answer

decriminalizing drugs should be the first priority

joeldalton · Answer

Yeah, because that’s worked out so well so far.

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