Legalizing drugs will lead to MORE of this: mother trades daughter for drugs

so its illegality prevented it?no
so legality plays no role.
its not like if herion is sold in stores im gunna go out and get me some.
its the living a miserable life usualy homeless sucking cock for money that turns me off more than its legal status
but hey thats just me
i suppose, people who want to suck cock on the street and sleep in thier own waste would have a different take

Ironic enough, if it was legal, this lady would probably be able to afford it and not have to whore out her daughter. Not only that, the deaths that are caused by prohibition far outweigh the amount of people who die from overdoses every year. What is sad is that people think we can have a free society and end drug trade, but they can't even stop drugs in prisons, let alone in a freer society. All of this happened DURING prohibition, if anything, it proves as another small piece of the puzzle that prohibitions are a failure. Just because you want to believe the government is doing good doesn't make it so. You are inflicting more harm on people who need education more than punishment! Drug laws ruin workforce ability for many. Once they go in to prison, they are introduced to dealers in the prison system, this is how it will always work. The whole reason drugs create back alley deaths is because prohibition suppresses choices into the underground market. All transactions with said goods will have an increase of risk, purely due to prohibitions. Not arresting people who need medical assistance is a wise choice, prohibition is what doesn't work.

Who the heck wants to legalize cocaine? Seems like this is just a way to give a bad light on the legalization of marijuana campaign.

why not look at places where they have revoaked prohibition (on pot)? like oregon, washington... california...? did all hell break lose? did everyone in the state run out and become junkies? NO... stop your slippery slope fear mongering!

might I add creepy mcreeperton...of all the evils in the world ('cuz it's gonna happen...realistically)...a kid...no...no :( "The kids don't stand a chance"...Vampire Weekend

I agree...food for though...since the Reagan era especially...the government's been banging their heads against a wall with the campy just say no campaign or worse and vilifying people with extreme addiction (with possible mental illness)...people trying to pay bills in a defeated job market...any gray areas or not so gray in between addicts and dealers..."busting" crime but not getting to the major roots of the issues.
Ad campaigns and the like...scratching the surface with billions and billions of our tax dollars...does anyone have any better ideas other than making it taboo and less trackable in terms of studying real numbers and real life experiences?

I'm not condoning chaos...but shouldn't the we all quit ignoring the elephant in the room and discuss it this theory at least? (that is directed to the people who haven't commented yet...I'd like 2 hear your take on this)

hmmmm legalising drugs will not stop the crime that comes with addiction. however to criminalise some one for taking drugs is stupid, it makes no sense. there will always be addicts, the only way the cycle of addiction can ever be truely broken is through honesty and counceling. Not through being sent to jail that does no good to anyone it just costs the tax payers loads and normally confirms the addicts belief that they will never be able to get out of the terrible situation they find themselves in. Obviously pimping out anyone but particularly kids should result in a hefty sentence in bang up, but all drugs should be legal and down to an adults personal choice; because prohibition never works.

Who in their right mind would leave their child in custody of a coke fiend? That poor kid. :(

I couldn't stay away from this one... Does anyone else think that the blame should be placed upon the dealer... i mean that guy has to be the dumbest dealer in the history of drug dealing.. Doesn't he know that having a kid is gonna end up more expensive then any amount of money he would have made off of so crack head bitch! I mean even if your gonna put that kid to work you have years before you can even bank on that... food for thought. : P

What a discussion, rather than theorise about what "might happen" you could look at empirical evidence. This kind of thing is much less prevalent in Europe, since they are such soft bleeding heart commie socialist liberals. Perhaps you might try a different approach, like the one which seems to lead to lower crime rates, and less violence??? just a thought.

Just another person making an ass of themselves on an issue they know nothing about

yeah but like, weed is no more a drug than beer, cigarrettes, coffee and read meet. So............

Yes We Cannibus!

This is the most ridiculous thing I have heard in a long time. Does the legality of a drug really change how a person is apt to treat another? The kid could have been swapped for money or any commodity.

Why has this story been #1 for 3 days? It's garbage.

So your saying more child molesters will have access to cocaine to give to a cocaine user so they can have sex with a kid the cocaine user is in charge of.

Cocaine is used all over this country and I see stories like this everyday in the news.

Step out of the Matrix your living in.

Seriously you sound like a crazy person.

I need to relax sometimes and lucky for me I live in a state that's chill....Why can't America jump on the band wagon and see that it's not a drug but the same as wine and beer.Why cant we regain the hemp nation we started with 200 years ago?We can even make fuel from Hemp.I think a world wide understanding to the fact that we can make it being OK stoned and happy.Let us grow.....It's better than cotton!...

People do things for moronic reasons, regardless if something is legalized or not. But legalizing cocaine will not lead to more addicts if there is enough regulation and education on the effects of the drug. Alcohol is legal, but you don't see an increase in alcoholics and you certainly have to pay a hefty tax on cigarettes to keep up your habit-- people aren't driven by curiosity, they're driven by money. Shoot the cost of cocaine high enough and people just won't want to pay for it.

This situation is unfortunate, but the logic pulling the headline together isn't sound. Making a drug legal doesn't mean we're giving it away like hotcakes. It doesn't mean everyone in the world will suddenly crave cocaine and ravenously pursue it like zombies. If anything, it means there's one more thing that Washington can tax, the revenue of which can be put towards getting that woman the help she needs.

Also, statistics mean nothing if you don't have a viable source. And no, Glenn Beck & Fox News don't count.

haha come on. to who ever posted this story, first off dont you know that drug dealers are in the buisness for the money? second, addiction is bad. but thats why you dont legalize fcuking super addictive drugs.

So.... what does legalization have to do with that? A horrible mother trades her daughter??? Call me crazy, but I think the problem here is the mother, not the drug.

BTW, there was a man who traded his daughter for beer and meat (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28629054/)
...should those things be made illegal? The logic of this story makes no sense.

don't forget cocaine has a LEGAL use. dentists and orthodontists can legally use and 'dispence' cocaine because it's a very good topical anesthetic.

can we please stop putting cannabis under the same category as cocaine? just because these crazy coked up scumbags decide that sex with children is an appropriate trade for cocaine should absolutely not persuade you in thinking that cannabis is a horrible drug. dont be fooled!! cannabis is NOTHING like cocaine.

What defunct rating system does Current use to make this crap #1? All drugs should be legalized. The amount of life and money that will be saved far exceed any of which that might be saved with the way things are now. Think of all the agencies that are around just to thwart drugs use, distribution, etc. The war on drugs is a boogie man just like terrorism. People should be able to do whatever they want with their bodies to include what they put in them so long as it doesn't directly affect anyone around them.

We've tried the war on drugs for a long time now lets try something different.

this is just sick and twisted human nature. weather or not "drugs" are legal has nothing to do with people being sick and twisted. at least if marijuana is legal people stand the chance to openly chill the fuck out for a second... and whoever says cocaine should be legal needs kicked, forcibly, in the shin. repeatedly if necessary. that is pure nonsense and i will oppose that til death. Not on my watch!

legal or not this will still go on there are sick people out there.

If it was legalized, she would've had to give her kid to the guy behind the counter at the pharmacy instead.

ah the good old slippery slope fallacy...

I wonder, and ask you then, if drugs become legal would you (curtisreed) run out to traid away your children to become an addict? i doubt it...

If Coca-cola was legalized and a woman swapped her daughter for cocaine, would that prove something about Coca-cola?

An editor with a functioning brain actually put this up on Current. It's not even April Fools Day yet. How about that as an argument for keeping marijuana possession a felony?

Guns are legal . They kill people too , are used in robbery . Should they not be legal ?

Half of the events you just posted have literally nothing to do with drugs, and who in their right mind would want to legalize cocaine? Who is proposing these things? I understand marijuanna may be legalized in California soon, but I hardly think it will have a violent outcome. As a matter of fact I think it will bring the exact opposite.

Glad that we're generalizing all drug users based on one idiot.

I suppose I should generalize everything. I guess all conservatives are over-generalizing fear mongers who like to talk big and not do anything but complain.

This post is a great example of curtisreed---he claims to think through so much logic but his logic is so twisted/nonexistent that his arguments are like swiss cheese. Thank you for this wonderful example of silliness.

How many people do you know sell their children for their morning cup of coffee? Pretty sure that's a drug and a chemically addictive one. Legal last time I checked.

"Your logic appears to be broken. I can fix that for ya?"

Prohibition breeds abuse. Legalizing it would not bring down prices until consumption wanes.
There may be a temporary shift in perception - and an increased presence of pot related use.

But soon, it would not be cool in business, not cool operating vehicles, not cool at public occasions - because it's not cool being a loady.

Any more than being an out and out drug addict is cool. It just isn't.

So it's importance as a cultural fixture would wane as well. Cause being a loady - for the simple sake of being loaded - isn't a specific social pinnacle.

At social occasions - family social occasions, being too loaded is not cool. You go to a wedding - the champagne rolls, people are energized. Once people are laying about, too loaded, - well, no body will consider that cool.

So you can only get so loaded at social events, no matter what you're on - otherwise, - you're not cool.

you can't sell your daughter to just anyone. Especially if they are operating a licensed dispensary. Just saying, drug dealers are a major part of the drug problem.

This type of behavior will happen no matter what the laws are. Neither tougher drug laws nor complete legalization will stop it. It is about the MONEY!!! She did not have the ‘money’ to get what she wanted so she bartered for it. If she had asked for Money instead then she would have just had to go to a third person to get what she wanted so she just got it directly from the source. The same things happen when people want other things, (Cars, Jewelry, Prescription Drugs, etc…) It’s about the MONEY!!! This has Nothing to do with what will happen if drugs are legalized. Addicts will be addicts no matter what the laws are and tougher laws will Not decrease the number of addicts!
The Truth is that if All drugs are legalized then they will be cheaper and easier to obtain by ADULTS who want them thus the trading of those substances will not get you nearly as much as it does now. It’s about the MONEY!!!
Prohibition has created Major crimes due to the Money involved and as long as that money is in the hands of the criminals, things will continue to get worse. Prohibition is a complete FAILURE!!!
It’s not about the drugs, it’s about the MONEY!!!

This is absolutely depressing. Ignoring the ridiculous spin that seems to be the focal point of discussion, I hope that the child is given the proper care and treatment she is going to need. Her childhood has been eradicated by someone she was suppose to trust, someone that was suppose to care and nurture her.

No child should EVER be used in this fashion, but it is an unfortunate truth far too often.

thats ignorant

lol. prohibition didnt work for alcohol. dont think its working for drugs either. learn your history people!

Idiot post

This woman needs to be in jail for a long time. She"ll be 'clean' in jail. She's not going to clean up her act on the outside at this late date.... she sold a child for drugs...Jail is where she should be.
Legalized medical cannabis will not cause cocaine addiction. If you get it for a medical reason, legally there's NO need to meet with the drug dealer....or hang out with crack whores...why didn't the man want her? Is she that bad? Shame! Shame, Shame....

what if we all stopped using drugs and not legalize it, then it solves ALL drug related problems. simple as that.