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| California Tries Treatment For Drug Users |
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Posted by FoM on July 02, 2001 at 07:59:30 PT By Valerie Alvord, Special for USA Today Source: USA Today 
The nation's boldest effort to put drug users into treatment instead of prison begins Monday in California. Proposition 36, a sweeping initiative approved by voters in November, directs judges to require treatment instead of incarceration to most non-violent, drug users on their first and second offense. It does not apply to drug dealers.Previously, treatment was an option only if offenders pleaded guilty and a judge approved. In California, 37,000 offenders a year will be eligible, at a savings of $250 million, officials say. Snipped Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help |
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Comment #3 posted by Dan B on July 03, 2001 at 04:25:30 PT:
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| The motto for FOX News should be "The Voice of Drug Warriors." With a leading man like Bill O'Reilly (motto: "More brainwashed Americans look to ME for their news than to any other Cable source"), is there any wonder why Republicans favor this cable news broadcast over any other? I read an article yesterday that said FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting) did a study of FOX News and found that while they claim to have a "fair a well-balanced approach to the news," in fact about 2/3 of their guests are Republicans (one can only assume that the other 1/3 are Democrats, as they have absolutely no interest in hearing from anyone else. This in itself is not "fair and well-balanced"). Anyway, I believe I read this article in the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, which would mean that it was intended as an advertisement for FOX News (Lubbock Motto: "More brainwashed Republicans per capita than in any other city!"--this town has, for a number of years, had the highest percentage of Rush Limbaugh fans in the world). Okay. Just had to get that out of my system. When I read a headline that says a state (or any other organization) is going to "try" treatment as an option, two things come to mind: (1) the authors clearly want to impress upon their readers that this is merely a chance to "prove" that treatment won't work without the threat of prison, and (2) that it really doesn't matter because drug warriors are running the treatment facilities too, and they'll do everything they can to make miserable the lives of their "patients" (read: "prisoners"). 'Nuff said. Dan B [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #2 posted by dddd on July 02, 2001 at 09:27:29 PT |
| ...I was interested to see how the major local network news would spin this.FOX news showed a rerun of this nasty little commercial that Martin Sheen did in opposition to the measure.....He said;"This would basically legalize drugs like crack,methamphetamine,and the date rape drug..." then,,,,after some more anti tilted blather,,,the peice ended with,,:"This new law,,enacted by the people,,could be changed in the courts,or even by the legistlature."...??? ...Now,,I guess I should know that ,yes,a court can over-rule the will of the people,,(the recent election for example),,,but it's hard to believe that they could do this in the first place,,,,but also, that they would suggest it on the evening news!
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| Comment #1 posted by greenfox on July 02, 2001 at 08:23:13 PT |
| Many judges, prosecutors and public defenders worry that California's 15,000 drug centers will be overwhelmed. Yeah right. If this is such a problem, why don't they take sly in green, foxy in kind... [ Post Comment ] |
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