General Chat

But drug users who don't have the money to buy them, even if the drugs were legalised , would STILL commit crimes to get the money to fund the habit. Women would still prostitute themselves to get money to buy drugs...legalising would not change that...unless you legalise and hand out for free of course...hmmm

I do think though that I have spent too long on this genealogy thing .... SRS I first read your title as "do you think we have too many in-laws?" lol

Janey,
I'm with you on that,
also applies to roads......banning traffic from convenient routes,only causes drivers to find another "rat run" and the problem starts all over again, building by-passes to get traffic away from a village, only moves the problem a bit further up the line.......
adding traffic calming.......what does that do? only slows traffic down......and causes nose to tail traffic, then you get the complaints that "we can't now cross the road", why? too much traffic instead of having gaps......they build roads wide enough for four lanes,then what do they do?put in cross hatches so that effectively reduces the road to one lane each way......

And *that* is ... the law of unintended consequences!

Seriously. ;)

Laws sometimes seem like quick fixes, but often aren't. There's a good example. Stopping people drinking (and causing problems as a result) in one place doesn't stop them drinking and causing problems. Unless there's nowhere else. Which there usually is.

I'm generally a fan of laws, but there are a lot like that, that are made when people get up in arms about something and nobody stops to consider the consequences.

Laws against possession of drugs are themselves similar. Outlaw drugs, and you don't stop drug use. You just get people stealing and burgling and robbing to buy drugs, women prostituting themselves to buy drugs, prisons full of people who possess drugs or commit crimes connected with drug use, and so on and on.

Drug use would not likely increase if drugs were legal. People who wanted to stop using drugs would be less afraid of trying to get help. Pregnant drug users would be more likely to get prenatal care (or heck, not get pregnant in the first place). And society would not have to pay for drug use through crime committed by drug users and taxes paid to keep them locked up.

Out of sight, out of mind just doesn't work when it comes to using laws to stop people doing things, indeed.

Well, in Winchester, they've stopped the drinking of alcohol in the parks in the centre of town.
Now, areas out of the centre of town, not usually covered by the police are being used.
As they're out of the centre, they're quite often used by dog walkers and not cleared very often by council workers. Result- dog's with paws cut by glass, small children hurt by glass etc.

When people could drink alcohol in the centre of town, at least the community police could keep a eye on those who over-indulged, or littered.

Seems like out of sight, out of mind!

What do you think of bye laws?........

some food for thought..


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-10895268