samsmart
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I think the legality of their drug habit is irrelevant. Tax payers should not encourage recreational drug needle use by allowing junkies to exchange their needles or to bail them out when their habit gets them infected with a disease.
Right - taxpayers shouldn't foot the bill so they can exchange needles in order to keep infections down to a minimum.
But taxpayers should foot the bill for the court costs to try them for drug possession and drug use. And to pay for their imprisonment. And to pay for their medical care for the abuses perpetuated on them by prisoners with more violent behaviors. And to pay for increased police presence in order to prevent those ex-convicts from committing theft just to survive when they can't get a job because of their criminal record for drug possession.
Which then starts the taxpayers' cycle all over again...