dozens of bodies dumped in mine

[cigarbabe]

and why stop there, why stomack pump them or clean them up when they overdose etc, why not just let them die, and save money at the same time.

Billy the cost for treatment in a public methadone facility this year {April 2010} is $5,200 a year for drugs and counseling seven days a week.
I'd wager that is much less the the cost of a funeral or incarceration my dear.

while i agree that jail is oten too strict a punishment. the cost for rehab of a single junkie could pay to lock one of those child molesters up.
No I don't believe that Billy.
You don't let them die because it isn't humane
nor is it the right thing to do.
Treatment with "Dolophine" is very cheap to manufacture.

legalizing weed etc would talke a lot of the drug users off the crime books. but heroin. if you legalize heroin it will still be sold on the streets illegally. but i'm going off topic.
Heroin would not be sold on the streets if the government is doling it out and collecting taxes on it.

the people down the shaft, while some will be gangsta's some will be innocent victims held for ransom then killed.

just an edit to add, if you're son or daughter was a heroin addict, you wouldn't call it a victimless crime. you'd want the drug dealer.
if you legalize heroin you allow people to still buy drugs off these people, to steal (the soft crimes) from parents etc in order to get a fix. in truth i've seen familes of these so called soft crimes destroyed because someone in their family was a junky.
Why would junkies pay potentially more money to buy illegally
than to purchase it cheaply from a reputable agent of the gov.?
That makes no sense at all!
There wouldn't be a need for street corner hustlers
if you could buy it legally somewhere safe.
It would perhaps solve some of our deficits also no?

i'd sooner be burgled ( a very hard crime) than have my daughters sell me out of house and home to get a fix, i'd sooner be beaten than have them end up in some pimps string just so they can get a fix. some of these soft crimes are soft crimes, unless you have to face them yourselves.

Billy when I refer to "victimless crime"
I am only speaking of prostitution exclusively.
I was a junkie for 14+ years and I have now been clean for 15+ years
so I do know how it can destroy families firsthand.
I worked every single day that I was doing dope and never robbed anyone
or hurt anyone other than myself and inadvertently my family.
C.B.

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the war on drugs is kept alive by the anti drug mafia and associates [read gov.agencies]

Actually srijante the "Mafia" has been a major importer of drugs into this country for more than 40 years or so.
The USA was founded on an opium based
monetary system in the early years long before gold was king.
C.B.