Get cracking on these users

Why are there so many crackheads in the streets? I thought it was just a Dezemba thing but a couple of days into the new year and there are still tweaked up weirdos playing hopscotch on the streets' fading dotted lines.

- Richard Chemaly

Why are there so many crackheads in the streets? I thought it was just a Dezemba thing but a couple of days into the new year and there are still tweaked up weirdos playing hopscotch on the streets' fading dotted lines. The more impressive ones do so while narrating their personal dissertation on the philosophical solutions to sobriety through metaphysics.

Sure, we wanted the law to focus on the "real" problems and leave the drug users alone. If you've been outside of late, no matter where in the country, it seems to be getting pretty out of hand. Worse, nobody seems to know what to do about it or, more likely, nobody wants to admit it's a problem.

There is, however, a lack of philosophical consistency with allowing such visible drug use.

There's a reason why one isn't allowed to drink in public and why it's so cumbersome to get a liquor licence. It's because we want to protect communities and especially children from drunkards and the opportunities to get drunk themselves.