Bunnypuncher's daily giveaway 5/28/2018 - 15 SBD total in prizes
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Daily giveaway 5/28/2018.
First Place: @olajidekehinde
Second Place: @omarbalzar
Third Place: @acelfaith
Fourth Place: @shariif
Fifth Place: @adiforever
Sixth Place: @noechie1827
Seventh Place: @ratna888
Eighth Place: @natalie90
Thank you everyone that has been upvoting and participating in my other contests. This one had such good feed back I'm going to increase the prizes to 15 SBD for today's contest. There will now be:
First Place: 5 SBD
Second Place: 3 SBD
Third Place: 2 SBD
Fourth Place: 1 SBD
Fifth Place: 1 SBD
Sixth Place: 1 SBD
Seventh Place: 1 SBD
Eighth Place: 1 SBD
The daily give-a-way winner will be selected at random from people that comment on this post. And I'll announce the winner the following day on the next day's contest post. I'll pull the list of entries from the comments approximately 24 hours after the post depending on my schedule. So unless you see the following day's post go ahead and add a comment. I'll will include entries right up to the last minute before I post the result and next contest.
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Suggested Daily Topic
The daily topic for today is:
Is drug usage treated too harhsly by laws? Should drug usage be handled more tolerantly?
Are the laws and penalities on drugs too harsh or not harsh enough? Should pain killers, weed, and other medications carry the harsh penalites they do today (at least in the US)? Or should laws be more tolerant of people that use drugs but don't cause harm to others?
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I think a limit should be set between drug usage and drug abuse. I believe if an individual is using a particular drug he or she should not be punished as long as it is not detrimental to his health and he is not abusing the usage of the drug. I think the drug law needs to be reviewed in order to fix it lapses.
Drugs, except for those that present clear and present dangers, should be legal. The results will be less crime, less social disruption, fewer overdoses by reducing the necessity for sellers to concentrate dosages, and eased treatment for users who want to stop.
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I mean i believe marijuana is treated too harshly since it is essentially legal in most places, and is beneficial socially and medically. As far as harder drugs like heroin or meth, those things ruin lives.
I have encountered many addicts over the years and I'm convinced drug-dealing is one of the worst crimes out there. No punishment is harsh enough!
Addicts need to be helped. Dealers need to be shot.
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Drug usage is treated too harshly by the law. If you legalized most drugs and regulated them similar to alcohol (which is a drug) and soon marijuana, most of the negative things associated with illegal drug usage goes away. Most negative aspects of drug usage happens as a result of interactions with criminals/criminal empires in order to acquire the drugs. The crime element leads to bribery, corrupt cops, corrupt politicians, killings, etc.. Just look at Mexico and the cartels that have infected the entire country because these shadow organizations thrive under a system where drugs are illegal and they have too much power to be quickly dealt with. Makings drugs illegal with harsh penalties also punishes a segment of the population (poverty stricken individuals) who are already institutionalized and in a downward spiral. Legalization would lead to less drug usage, less criminal involvement, and proper rehabilitating people.
Drug usage in certain situations, is really treated harshly and criminalized, in many countries it is seen as a crime to use drugs, but in my view it should be seen as a disease instead, instead of sending people to prison for drug usage, they should be send to rehabilitation and help them get healthy and reintegrated into society.
I’m torn on the subject because I believe people should be accountable for every personal decision. If you sell or use drugs you should be held accountable. I do however think that the laws in some circumstances are outdated or just plain wrong.
It is true that drug abuse is harmful to health and the social environment. It has also been shown that the current laws against the consumption, carrying, distribution and production of drugs have not been as effective as expected.
Since 1981, the United States has been spending $150 billion a year from taxes to try to prevent Colombian Cocaine, Burmese heroin and Jamaican marijuana from entering its borders. However, the evidence is that for every tonne confiscated, hundreds more go in.
This so-called "War on Drugs" instead of employing a strategy containing preventive, investigative, educational and social programmes designed to address such problems as permanent poverty, long-term unemployment and deteriorating living conditions, continues to waste billions of taxpayers' dollars on military equipment dedicated to ineffectively combating drugs, sending thousands of citizens to prison for carrying small quantities of these substances, while the real drug lords' or capos' continue to get rich through this monopoly generated by the laws.
In addition to the public health problem, drug prohibition laws promise a healthy society by denying citizens access to and possible addiction to narcotics. But this has been nothing more than a false reality, since as I said before, drugs continue to circulate on the streets and are not subject to any quality control, being often contaminated or extremely potent, causing illness and sometimes death to those who use them.
It has also generated a bloody business, as drug deals are often surrounded by violence, which has taken the lives of many innocent people.
Drug prohibition laws have failed to cut or reduce the harmful effects of drug use. The slogan of "A drug-free world" is an unrealistic concept, prohibition has only led to criminals gaining more power.
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In my opinion, the drug usage is not treated too harshly because the lawmakers constitute the laws according to the ground realities and they also keep in mind all the pluses and minuses. And the drug users/usage should not be handled more tolerantly because it will encourage more and more people and hence the number of drug users will be increased in the society which is not good.