Yeah. People are going to steal, cheat, kill, all sorts of stuff. And they'll do that for all sorts of reasons. And those things are already crimes, so why criminalize the reasons why they're doing it? I would much prefer a treatment mentality than a criminalization mentality. Hopefully that turns up. And victimless is a hard situation to actually be in. I mean, if a mom's doing heroin after dropping the kid off at kindergarden, and usually is totally ready to come get him at the end of the day, what happens when she nods off and he needs to come home early? That's like the most lighthearted situation I could think of! But the same can be said for funcitoning alcoholics. It's all a nasty thing that people do to themselves.
Buddy of mine started divorce proceedings against his wife when she blew a 0.14. A samaritan had reported her bouncing off the barriers on the freeway and then saw kids in the car seats in back. They weren't even buckled in. Except that's not true. He started divorce proceedings when one of them got her arm caught in the gate and stood next to the house screaming for 45 minutes because her sister couldn't wake mommy up. Except that's not true either. She divorced him when she determined it was more expedient to just bang her meth dealer since he was a CI and was never prosecuted nor had his supply interrupted. Kids are fine now, thank god but no. There are no jocular involvements between addiction/alcoholism and children. I got the scars to prove it.