Prop 5: Do Sick People Deserve Drug Treatment or Jail Time?

Prop 5: The Nonviolent Offender Rehabilitation Act

http://www.Prop5Yes.com

Proposition 5 will cut state costs. The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst estimates those savings at $2.5 billion or more. Prop. 5 safely eases prison overcrowding by investing in drug treatment - which costs much less than prison - for youth and nonviolent offenders. Prop. 5 provides treatment with strict accountability.

Prop. 5 is supported by the League of Women Voters of California, Consumer Federation of California, California Nurses Association, California Society of Addiction Medicine, California Federation of Teachers - and many others.

Prop. 5 is opposed by the state prison guards' union, which has contributed almost $2 million for deceptive TV ads. Prison guards benefit from prison overcrowding and new prison building, but California loses.

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[shockingalternative]

ok i have just finished reading the full text you wanted me to read. it does in fact state that those who are sex offenders don't get a free ticket but it seems, are exempt from this prop 5 as they are considered serious offenders. that's what i was hoping was the case. thank you for helping me reevaluate my vote choice. yes on 5

[AmericanDrugWar]

Glad we could help!

[shockingalternative]

i was going to vote yes, but now that i see child rapists can be sent to "treatment" instead of jail, i think NO is what it will be. rapists are evil and need jail and treatment.

[AmericanDrugWar]

What?! Go to Prop5Yes(dot)com and read the full text of the bill. It's for non-violent drug offenders, not child rapists. That just goes to show what an expensive TV ad campaign can do!

[chucktees5353]

i think to make this a better place to live we should give people treatment instead to cruel punnishment. we should at least try to make them better instead of locking them away so that they come out worse than when they went in in result making the world an unsafe place to live. two negatives never solve the problem.

peace!

[copcorona]

we almost decriminalized weed here in Canada, The DEA put an end to that, but we will not quit. We will win. We need to talk to our elected officials and tell them that the war on drugs is an inhumane waste of tax dollars.

[DarkMonster771]

I would vote that they deserve drug treatment. Locking them up is just sick.

[Houshalter]

DAMN IT, they won't be able to get mandatory rehab if drugs are legal! How dumb can you be? Those that aren't addicted, SHOULD go to jail, that's why it's a crime! A person who get's caught growing a marajuana plant, if he's not an addict then he is probably going to get other people addicted, in other words, he is causing other people harm.

[Ladiestreat]

This country is sick in the head.

Should rapist be locked up?

Yes

Should murderers be locked up?

Yes

Should a guy growing a pot plant be Locked up?

In my opinion no.

We as decent human beings no what is right and what is wrong. Smoking and growing marijuana is not wrong by any means and the fucktards in DC need to respect the peoples rights and get the DEA out of fucking anyones business. I say the DEA should be closed.

[majikninja07]

being addicted to drugs and alcohol is a disease

im sry that it is a disease but only by the standards of todays brainwashed debt based society, come on who doesnt wanna live in a theocratic society only the diseased are punished your not diseased what do you have to worry about

[mandeeify]

yes sick people deserve treatment they need help being addicted to drugs and alcohol is a disease and there is recoverer programs for those who want help. 12 step programs .U.S.A. IS really hard on there people who break laws. they don"t seem to interested in helping them just locking them up and throwing the keys away. i am so glad that i am not an americian .

[binks2413]

"Are you really living in a free country" Joe Pietri - Activist

American Drug War The Last White Hope

[hekesuede]

In the U.S., you're one mistake away from becoming one of "them."

I only found out a year ago just how many prisoners per capita we had compared to other countries. Before then I was certain that communist China or North Korea must incarcerate more people; after all, they were run by "oppressive regimes" or so I was told, where America was a "beacon of freedom."

I felt like a total ignoramus; How could I've been fooled for so long?

[Rockynurse]

You are a moron. That would be a violation of the bill of rights. If you do it within people's rights then it costs millions per execution.

[Erebus2075]

my answer is... shoot them..