Comments by "Bettina" (@Bettinasisrg) on "From Rehab to a Body Bag | Dying for Treatment: VICE Reports (Full Length)" video.

I liked the angle, but your stats are wrong. If someone is stabbed while on drugs then it's "a drug related death"! Also there's a difference between a user and an abuser. Millions of people drink socially and legally without issues, but I guarantee if alcohol was made illegal we would have many more deaths. A lot of these deaths are caused by street drugs made with deadly chemicals and with widely varying amounts of the actual drug in them. The reason we (the U.S.) made alcohol legal again was because so many people were dying because their "street" alcohol was wood grain alcohol i.e. rubbing alcohol because it was cheap and easy to make, and the same thing is happening with drugs. I know I'll be vilified for saying this but drugs should be legal for adults. And don't say then kids will do more because as of right now kids are the only people who know where the drugs are. We are filling our prisons with nonviolent drug offenders and letting out the actual people we should be afraid of, not people we want to control. Some people fought the legalization of pot, and look not only are we not falling into anarchy but the states that did legalize it are making billions in taxes because of it!!
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