The homeless people are not following the law because there are no consequences to them. Where I am the drinking, passing out and loitering is not a crime. They can be ticketed but what is the point, they will not and cannot pay. Plus the city does not want a racial incident, if you get my meaning.

They could be removed and the authorities sometimes remove the ones that are passed out and take them to the drunk tank but as soon as they sober up they are released. It is treated as a medical problem and our EMTs spend all their time treating these wretches and my tax dollars fund this cycle. A few good hits with a baton would disperse these idiots, but those days are gone unfortunately.

There was a small green space next to my building and a group of about 30 had taken it over, using the trees as shelter and even setting up tents and tarps. Drunk all the time. The city came and cut down all the trees, to discourage them and at least they moved on. But now they hand out behind our building and on the green space in front of it. Our building management has had to hire security guards to chase them off the property but they just congregate just beyond the property lines.

Regarding the previous societal problems, it was a well known issue with Civil War veterans hooked on laudenum just loitering basically passed out everywhere in the big city. I can look up some of the other issues.

Where I am, and I don't want to be specific, marijuana is legal for recreational use. There are restrictions for driving etc. We actually have two legal marijuana stores a block away from us, on either side. Since they have opened, you can really see the increase in riff raff, rough looking thugs hanging about.

Marijuana is not harmless, but governments have been seduced by tax revenues and duped into thinking that it should not be controlled. I personally know of one person who suffered marijuana induced psychosis from too much use. The symptoms mimicked schizophrenia, complete with visual hallucinations of demons coming to get her. It is more common than people realize, as is actual dependency, though the common wisdom is that it is harmless which makes it harder to recognize and treat the addiction. As more and more people use it more frequently I think you will see a big spike in psychiatric effects from these and other drugs.

We also ignore the social ills that come even when it is legal. Because it is not legal for children, you still have a black market where children are sometimes prostituting themselves to get it. I am personally aware of a case in my city where an 11 year old foster child was prostituting herself to get weed which she then introduced to her 9 year old sister. These are sad little anecdotes but I am sure that they are not unique.

Also. keep in mind that if you legalize drugs there will always be more illegal and dangerous drugs being produced. Think for example of the Russian Kokodril, which actually physically eats you from the inside like a cocodrile and yet has a market. Do we want to legalize that shit?

And if we legalize every recreational drug, why can't I treat myself with antibiotics or experimental chemo drugs if I am sick? Why do doctors get to regulate those drugs, which have at least been tested and might do some good, but junkies can buy cocaine and meth freely?

The homeless people are not following the law because there are no consequences to them. Where I am the drinking, passing out and loitering is not a crime. They can be ticketed but what is the point, they will not and cannot pay. Plus the city does not want a racial incident, if you get my meaning.

They could be removed and the authorities sometimes remove the ones that are passed out and take them to the drunk tank but as soon as they sober up they are released. It is treated as a medical problem and our EMTs spend all their time treating these wretches and my tax dollars fund this cycle. A few good hits with a baton would disperse these idiots, but those days are gone unfortunately.

There was a small green space next to my building and a group of about 30 had taken it over, using the trees as shelter and even setting up tents and tarps. Drunk all the time. The city came and cut down all the trees, to discourage them and at least they moved on. But now they hand out behind our building and on the green space in front of it. Our building management has had to hire security guards to chase them off the property but they just congregate just beyond the property lines.

Regarding the previous societal problems, it was a well known issue with Civil War veterans hooked on laudenum just loitering basically passed out everywhere in the big city. I can look up some of the other issues.

Where I am, and I don't want to be specific, marijuana is legal for recreational use. There are restrictions for driving etc. We actually have two legal marijuana stores a block away from us, on either side. Since they have opened, you can really see the increase in riff raff, rough looking thugs hanging about.

Marijuana is not harmless, but governments have been seduced by tax revenues and duped into thinking that it should not be controlled. I personally know of one person who suffered marijuana induced psychosis from too much use. The symptoms mimicked schizophrenia, complete with visual hallucinations of demons coming to get her. It is more common than people realize, as is actual dependency, though the common wisdom is that it is harmless which makes it harder to recognize and treat the addiction. As more and more people use it more frequently I think you will see a big spike in psychiatric effects from these and other drugs.

We also ignore the social ills that come even when it is legal. Because it is not legal for children, you still have a black market where children are sometimes prostituting themselves to get it. I am personally aware of a case in my city where an 11 year old foster child was prostituting herself to get weed which she then introduced to her 9 year old sister. These are sad little anecdotes but I am sure that they are not unique.