On 11/10/2013 9:06 AM, iBoaterer wrote:

In article 660801035405735036.600713bmckeenospam-


You should have freedom to do pretty much what ever you want, as long as
the rest of us do not have to pay for your actions. Rape, murder. That is
someone else paying for your actions. Drugs? You want to use them? Your
choice. But we, as a society, are not picking up your medical or societal
costs. Your family can not afford to support you, you die.

But drug use DOES affect others. In many ways. Are you okay with
trawlers going to your favorite lake and scooping every living thing out
of it? All negative actions affect someone somehow.

Sure drugs affect others, but unless the drug addict is committing crimes
to get the drugs, they affect their close family, friends. Not society as
a whole. Illegal trawlers, etc, affect large parts of society, that is not
closely connected.

Horse****! I'd guess then, you'd have no problem with drug addicts
camped in your yard every morning? If you had a business, you'd have no
problem with drug addicts sleeping in your doorway?

They die, and don't camp anymore.

Die from what?

Drugs and exposure. Next.

Oh, bull****! I wonder why all of the addicts are still on Market St. in
SF? If what you said made any sense, they wouldn't be there, they'd be
dead from "drugs and exposure". Next.



Interesting statistics from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (USA
numbers):

About 570,000 people die annually due to drug use.

440,000 of them are from diseases related to smoking tobacco.
85,000 are due directly to alcohol abuse.
20,000 are due directly to the use of illicit drugs.
20,000 are due directly to prescription drug abuse.

About 43,000 people die each year in automobile accidents. Half are
alcohol or drug related.

About 32,000 people a year die of firearms related causes. Over half of
them are suicides.