AC units stolen from 4 Detroit businesses [[Livernois Ave.)

[Detroitnerd]

Another thing to do would be to legalize drugs. That way you don't have vulture crackheads staring at A/C units and drooling over what they're going to do that night.

[townonenorth]

Another thing to do would be to legalize drugs. That way you don't have vulture crackheads staring at A/C units and drooling over what they're going to do that night.

Right. Then you'd have vulture "legalized" crackheads staring at A/C units and drooling over what they're going to do that night.

[Detroitnerd]

Right. Then you'd have vulture "legalized" crackheads staring at A/C units and drooling over what they're going to do that night.

That's the popular wisdom. But take a look at what has happened in Portugal. When soft drugs are legalized and hard-drug-users are arrested and given a choice of jail or treatment, you see drug use drop dramatically. But, heck, who cares if it actually works. Much better to just mouth off and figger things'd be just the same, right?

[Det_ard]

That's the popular wisdom. But take a look at what has happened in Portugal. When soft drugs are legalized and hard-drug-users are arrested and given a choice of jail or treatment, you see drug use drop dramatically. But, heck, who cares if it actually works. Much better to just mouth off and figger things'd be just the same, right?

I'm totally for that. The additional harm from legalization will be much less than the benefit from the reduction in all the crime surrounding drug use and the drug trade. And I don't smoke anything but cigars.