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I believe this is as stupid a question as I've ever heard - that is, "Should the government fund needle-exchange programs?" I believe it is SO stupid, it doesn't deserve the dignity of much of an answer, since the people who addict themselves to injectable drugs (or any others, for that matter), are not forced to - they do it willingly and all by themselves. therefore, the answer to the question is, "Not merely 'NO', but 'NO WAY; ABSOLUTELY NOT'."

So-called 'recreational' drugs are poisons - from alcohol to methamphetamine to marijuana to heroine to PCP and whatever other poisons are out there - if it alters your perceptions of the world around you and the ways in which you interact with that world, it is poison. The term "drunk" means "intoxication", after all; and if you break the word down into its root words, you find the sentence, "in" - "toxic" - "ation" means, "to take a poison into your body".

Drug addiction, intoxication, drunkenness, all are another way to spell "stupid".

After all, "ignorance" is defined as 'not knowing a thing is wrong, so you do it'; while "stupid" is defined as 'knowing a thing is wrong, and doing it anyway'. Here, the word 'do' can be replaced by the word 'take'. Regardless, ignorance is easier to cure than stupidity; and is why we have schools. Stupidity is much more dedicated, and so is harder to cure.

Given that needle-exchange programs are tax-payer-funded enabling, and we already spend massive amounts of funds on education against drug use, it is past stupid to then spend of OUR DOLLARS (not those of some mythical and unrelated 'government') to give 'good' needles to stupid people who addicted themselves while ignoring the education programs we've already funded.

Then, of course, there is the matter of the law. Drug use is illegal. Therefore, to use our dollars to fund needle-exchange programs is to aid and abet the commission of illegal acts. Thus I see needle-exchange proposals as another effort by the drug industry to legalize drug use. Not "NO", but "NO WAY; ABSOLUTELY NOT".

I see drunking and drugging as attempts at suicide, just done in slow motion. Since I believe that if people want to suicide, it is their right as well as their spiritual responsibility for all the grief they cause their loved ones, if they have any, then we should let them. Our Holy Mother the Earth is already grossly over-populated with humans as it is, to the detriment, even, the threat of extinction of other species who share our Mother's bounty with us. We all having been put here by the Great Holy that is the entire universe, if people want to die by injection of poisons, especially if they call it by some euphemism about happiness, let them. But under no circumstances will I allow my tax dollars to go to such idiotic and stupid programs as needle exchanges.

I do NOT enable bad behavior. I certainly do NOT keep quiet about it or allow some bonehead to bully me into enabling bad behavior on the premise that somehow I'm showing idiots mercy! I am the woman who Dances The Four Winds, and my Holy Channunpa is dedicated to healing the Sacred Hoop of the world. Enabling bad behavior is in no way part of that.

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