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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 686663" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>I am fine with putting them in treatment to get clean and if they do, drop the jail sentence but have then drug tested weekly for ten years. If they fail, they fail.</p><p>Although addiction is an illness, they know what they are doing. If they deliver heroin, who is to say a child won't become hooked because of it? And, I, in a personal way, don't want some twenty year old druggie selling heroin that may end up in the hands of my fourteen year old grandson. Or yours.</p><p>I don't think anyone should not be offered rehab first. I don't think 25 years is appropriate for just catching somebody with drugs. Again I favor rehab first.</p><p>If your son or even my son sells the drug knowing they could be harming a minor, I don't care if they fail their one rehab chance and then spend years in jail. </p><p>Mentally Ill people hurt others and go to jail unless they are legally insane. Most of our kids have had chances some poorer kids wouldn't get. </p><p>I draw my compassion line with dealing. They are sick but not insane and don't care who gets hurt as long as they get their fix. Yes, my daughter did this. She was a minor though and lucky not to get caught. She is appalled now that she once was a speed connection for druggie at her high school. And she should be.</p><p>Dealing is a personal Russian Roulette. It is a crime that hurts other people. A 35 year old man started my daughter on meth. She was fifteen and had a crush on him. I wouldn't have cried if he'd gotten jail for life, but my daughter was too afraid of him to turn him in.</p><p>He is still doing his drug bit. He never got clean. Been in/out jail. Got off easy. Sick? Yes and unwilling to get well and probably still dealing. I have no pity.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 686663, member: 1550"] I am fine with putting them in treatment to get clean and if they do, drop the jail sentence but have then drug tested weekly for ten years. If they fail, they fail. Although addiction is an illness, they know what they are doing. If they deliver heroin, who is to say a child won't become hooked because of it? And, I, in a personal way, don't want some twenty year old druggie selling heroin that may end up in the hands of my fourteen year old grandson. Or yours. I don't think anyone should not be offered rehab first. I don't think 25 years is appropriate for just catching somebody with drugs. Again I favor rehab first. If your son or even my son sells the drug knowing they could be harming a minor, I don't care if they fail their one rehab chance and then spend years in jail. Mentally Ill people hurt others and go to jail unless they are legally insane. Most of our kids have had chances some poorer kids wouldn't get. I draw my compassion line with dealing. They are sick but not insane and don't care who gets hurt as long as they get their fix. Yes, my daughter did this. She was a minor though and lucky not to get caught. She is appalled now that she once was a speed connection for druggie at her high school. And she should be. Dealing is a personal Russian Roulette. It is a crime that hurts other people. A 35 year old man started my daughter on meth. She was fifteen and had a crush on him. I wouldn't have cried if he'd gotten jail for life, but my daughter was too afraid of him to turn him in. He is still doing his drug bit. He never got clean. Been in/out jail. Got off easy. Sick? Yes and unwilling to get well and probably still dealing. I have no pity. [/QUOTE]
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