2 local senators oppose reforms to Rockefeller dru

[Swimmy]

2 local senators oppose reforms to Rockefeller drug laws

I'd be interested to know where their voices were when the measures initially passed.

Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but drug court is for first time drug USERS, not dealers. So, it makes no sense to oppose something that drug dealers (repeat offenders and thus ineligible for drug court) would not be participating in in the first place.

I wonder why the od disabled a comment section for this one.

[dgriffin]

In my experience, the line between dealers and users is often quite blurred. At least at the low end, where you have people dealing in order to have money to use.

Also, I have to wonder if drug courts are driven by incarceration costs savings, too, which would motivate the use of them when not as warranted as we would prefer. Don't forget, when a drug court assigns the perp to a drug program, the costs go to Medicaid instead of the jail or prison system.

[concerned]

Why does society and thus the justice system discriminate against what constitutes drug abuse. I can see regulations in terms of how much of any drug can be allowed in the blood stream of any individual in order to declare that they are hameful to society( as long as it is backed up by extensive lab anylasis), however why can't a person use any drug of there choice as long as they are not harming society. Drug dealers are only answering a call to what society asks.They have to do it in a illegal way ( because of the court system is filled with no relative truth)but sellers of alcohol can do it legally. What is the difference?

[concerned]

I forgot. Our systems of law may just discriminate against those who break the law because those laws are based on the majority who think those laws protect us from something that could do an individual or society harm?? I wonder