hunter
hunter's JournalSaddest thing is addiction is a medical and social problem that shouldn't be difficult to deal with.
Meth addicts need a safe place of last resort other than prison or the mean streets.
Our's would be a much better world if they had access to legal amphetamines in a safe place to come down, even if they were contributing nothing to society, for the rest of their lives even. Let them harmlessly play video games in the shelter.
"No longer a danger to self or others" is a much better world than what we have now.
Every community ought to have a place where addicts of all sorts can come in for a soft, foam-on-the-runway landing. Crash and burn is never a good thing. Innocent people get hurt.
Some people are without hope, the drugs or alcohol or cigarettes will kill them. But punishment never improves the situation.
In a gentle society some people will escape their addiction, or at least find a place where they can remain somewhat functional.
An ex-meth-head, heroin, or nicotine addict on legal meds... who cares??? Slap a patch on them, give them legal e-cigs, gums, pills, whatever they need not to be jonesing for the illegal stuff.
There are interesting little old ladies with disintegrating bones taking doses of opiates that would leave me passed out in the gutter. More power to them.
Opiates and amphetamines are remarkably non-hazardous drugs compared to alcohol or nicotine, if only the source is legal and clean.
We could save the R2D2s who now become trashcans, even free them from their addictions, if we simply abandoned this stupid "war on drugs." It would take the illegal gangster and cop, spy vs.spy, profit out of the drug trade too.
Existing patent and copyright law are impeding human progress.
I think patents and copyrights ought to have a very short life if they pass to third party for-profit corporations.
Certainly, let artists pass patents and copyrights to wife, kids, grandkids, and other intimate relationships of the author; do let copyrights and patents support family known to the author.
But limit the time unrelated parties can control patents and copyrights
If I ever write something brilliant and profitable, yes, I might want the money going to known family after I'm dead.
Maybe corporations only ought to be able to buy time-limited leases on patents and copyrights from the artist or their name-designated heirs. After that the art would revert back to the artist's named family or be released to humanity in the public domain.
In the case of patents involving life-saving technology (pharmaceuticals, etc.) I think patents ought to be subject to eminent domain (nationalization and release to the public domain) whenever the owners of these patent are found to be restricting supply for egregious profit.
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