legalize drugs?

[Brian]

Brian, do you really want to treat drug-dealing areas like we want to treat the U.S.-Mexican border?? Philosophically, do you want government to simply enlarge its footprint in another way on top of what it already does? Seems like the proposition just gets more and more costly and top-heavy, with no real idea of how it would succeed. Practically More money gets tossed, more power gets exerted, and nothing is helped. Most deals happen inside, by the way.

Not really dolfan, its just something I've tossed around because my past drug use took me to places just like I described. I seen the people on the corners giving signals to there buddies down the block that the coast was clear. I've been in the dark alleyways hiding cause the cops are driving down the road,...when they past we just popped out and it was buisiness as usual.

Of course that idea was just a knee jerk response.....if you'll notice my follow up about changing the heart....

God bless

[Pastor Gary]

Most deals happen inside, by the way.

Can you cite your source for that? Brian has a point, as one who has his kind of first-hand knowledge of the situation. What he suggests is not THE answer, but it does work in what Hawaii calls "Weed-n-Seed" operations, in which heavy crime centers are saturated with cameras, police presence, and LIGHT.

What is the alternative? Give up, as you suggest? Build a giant fenced in area and make it a free-fire zone, in which all laws are suspended and drug use is okay? How bout a one-way gate on that fence... allow anyone who wants to go in and buy/sell/use all the drugs they want... but once you're in, you stay there and leave the rest of us alone?