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Originally Posted by adc
I don't really want to keep this going but will answer your questions.
Yes if my kids were dumb enough to get involved with drugs and broke the law I would expect them to do the 10 years. Now I feel confident that I would raise them right so they would not get involved.
As for the States and their mandatory laws from what I have read they never were as severe as I am proposing. Therefore they were never enough of a deterent to stop people from selling and using, using especially, drugs.
I will say if you are going to keep the piddly little drug laws we have now then you likely won't do much to curb people's use. That is why I want the punishment to be very severe to actually make people consider not using the drugs.
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This way of thinking basically is against any sort of research on the topic. Mandatory minimums and severe punishments don't deter crime. The US has the highest incarceration rates in the world, mostly due to mandatory minimums. People go to jail for minor offenses and leave prison hardened criminals with no prospects for lawful employment. What you're proposing is both ridiculously harmful on society and completely ineffective.