Such as examples please. I would say legalize drugs and treat addicts and mental health, 5 week vacations living wage
Well, the drug war incentivizes the cartels and small timers to smuggle across the border. Ending the war on drugs will put a big dent in that aspect of the illegal crossings.
As far as legalizing drugs themselves, I've never been a fan of the federal government telling people what they can and can't consume. Leave it to the states as our founders rightly intended, if there must be a debate on it. I'm a big fan of the right to freedom of choice If we legalize heroin, how many people here are going to go out tomorrow and suddenly say hey, I'm going to take heroin? Very, very, few. But they're also not going to say, oh sht, I need the government to take care of me and protect me from taking heroin, so I need laws to stop me from taking heroin. lol. How stupid does that sound?
It's similar to gambling. I don't gamble and so long as someone else doesn't force me to do it, I don't want to violate someone elses freedom of choice to gamble.
Now. I think laws at the State level to protect children from drugs is a different story.
On treatment, the fundamental coutlier of the right to freedom of choice to take drugs is the right to assume responsibility for oneself. So, that's all I have to say about treatment.
There's more people addicted to prescription drugs than illegal drugs, to be honest. This compounds things because that could be treated as a crime because they're overprescribing to people. A large majority of these people shooting up places have been on the psychotropic drugs.
As far as sending some kid to jail for smoking some plant and then leaving him in there for years only to come out a hardened criminal is not the solution. And sometimes, the feds are taking the families' homes and property when their kids get locked up for it. There's a few stories about that out there, too.
You're going to have to be specific of what you want exaples of because you lost me there. Examples of what and germane to what?