No one cares.

Generally, the police shooting at unarmed white people is frowned upon.

Fun fact: Anybody who writes or utters the phrase "I want the purity of my daughters protected" in regards to a bra commercial is going to be a grandparent at 35.

Fuck the team. Seriously, fuck the team, he owes them less than nothing.

The 49ers could and would have cut him tomorrow if they found a comparable player who could save them a dollar. The players owe no loyalty to the teams.

Yea! How dare he be concerned about his own health!

Except that many of those overdoses were caused by the drugs being illegal, accidentally shooting up/snorting or smoking some unpackaged or repackaged drug far purer than you could know, or not even the drug you expected.

Yep. Addiction is not a moral failing or a crime. It's a disease. We've tried it your way (war on drugs) it's not working, we're all worse for it. Let's try something else. Oh and in the meantime actually increase liberty and freedom in America and save lots of cash. Win, win, win.

Exactly right. What a waste of time, money, and lives. The Drug War has done more to ruin America and its ideals than other policy. It's the only 'war' where we are paying for both sides of the 'war.' If the cultural war in America is the Cold War, then the Drug War is the Vietnam War. Let people do what they…

480,000 deaths per year from tobacco.
88,000 deaths from alcohol
4,000 from heroin.

How many millions of taxpayer dollars has the Coast guard wasted on this ignorant War??How will this stop the drugs that are hidden in the MILLIONS of Containers that slowly come into U.S. ports EVERYDAY???

The smugglers did move. Cocaine and opium used to be legal, then they weren't, so the smugglers moved to other drugs. Legalizing them doesn't cause replacements to spring into place, but keeping them illegal certainly does.

Of course, we could just legalize and tax drugs at the federal level, and not have to spend millions of dollars chasing down these suicidal idiots and their cargo, some of which is already legal at the state level in numerous states. But this would deprive the Coast Guard and Navy of some cool equipment and some great…

You are arguing to continue having thousands of extra murders a year (some of entirely innocent bystanders) on the oft chance it reduces some overdoses? You apparently forget how many overdoses occur due to illegal drugs having unknown potency/dilution.

government should be fired then, cause drugs are everywhere and end up funding huge criminal mobs. During prohibition the murder rate was sky high and violent bootlegger gangs everywhere. Alcohol was legalized and murder rate plummeted.

Tobacco is pretty destructive and alcohol is debilitating (that is what you meant, right?), so how is this any different?

We need to follow Portugals example and decriminalize drugs. Yes, even heroin and cocaine.

What a colossal waste of money.

My family is presbyterian, and the church we attended used to own a few properties out in the boonies which they used for church retreats and the such. Now the presbytery set up a deal with the archdiocese where they let catholic church groups use the properties for their retreats as well, and long story short, a…