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<blockquote data-quote="Dove" data-source="post: 190727" data-attributes="member: 535">Forcing people into rehab wont do anything but cost money. What typically happens is someone commits a drug related crime, and the judge gives them the option of signing into a rehab program(usually of the judges chosing....and for anywhere from 2 weeks to a year long program) or go to jail for 90 days to a year depending on the crime. So of course they chose rehab. Stay clean long enough(if they can) to finish the legal obligations and then they are back rippin and running.&nbsp; I saw a lot of this when I willingly chose to go to rehab and then a 1 year life skill program. I actually agree with decriminalization....its not the same as making it legal. It's just a waste to arrest drug addicts when its much more a health crisis then a legal one. And that doesnt mean drug related crimes like theft wont be dealt with. &nbsp;I think it could be a very good thing if it's not just decriminalized and left like that and a plan is in place to help them....like how mentally ill were freed from the cruelty of having treatment in a safe environment and now just sleep on the streets and get patient dumped out of ERs.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dove, post: 190727, member: 535"] Forcing people into rehab wont do anything but cost money. What typically happens is someone commits a drug related crime, and the judge gives them the option of signing into a rehab program(usually of the judges chosing....and for anywhere from 2 weeks to a year long program) or go to jail for 90 days to a year depending on the crime. So of course they chose rehab. Stay clean long enough(if they can) to finish the legal obligations and then they are back rippin and running. I saw a lot of this when I willingly chose to go to rehab and then a 1 year life skill program. I actually agree with decriminalization....its not the same as making it legal. It's just a waste to arrest drug addicts when its much more a health crisis then a legal one. And that doesnt mean drug related crimes like theft wont be dealt with. I think it could be a very good thing if it's not just decriminalized and left like that and a plan is in place to help them....like how mentally ill were freed from the cruelty of having treatment in a safe environment and now just sleep on the streets and get patient dumped out of ERs. [/QUOTE]

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