I used to be for full legalization, then had to deal with one of my employees being on meth.
Being the big soppy that I am, I didn't fire her immediately and tried to help her get out of it.
I figured that showing her some of the joys of life might do, but it didn't.
I got her a new laptop, and she sold it to buy meth. At least she had the creance of formatting it, so eventually I got back the Steam credit.
I got her an electronics kit, and she sold it to buy meth.
I got her a small sailboat (only cost me $400 on craigslist, but I spent quite a few hours getting her seaworthy again) and she crashed it on the first outing after declaring that she had to come back to get a fix.
Eventually I told her to leave when I discovered that she was stealing from the "go to rat shack and grab a bag of resistors" prepaid card.
(Full disclosure: I don't do drugs because my brain chemistry is all over the place already, but am in favor of legalizing weed and shrooms - declaring an organism illegal only takes legitimity away from laws, and there are no hyperconcentration issues that way)
What the heck does this have to do with legalization? Your employee's performance was presumably suffering because of their addiction, and in any event, theft from your employer is grounds for dismissal.
Your employee was not any less addicted due to the criminalization of drugs.
Meth is extremely addictive and should be hard to get a hold of, is all.
If you have a better solution please share it. Getting stoned on weekends is fine, but I got to see the whole "faces of meth" before and after thing in person over a year, and it was not pretty.
Meth is controlled and yet your employee still managed to get it. Obviously criminalizing it doesn't prevent people from having access to it. What it does prevent is quality control.
Being the big soppy that I am, I didn't fire her immediately and tried to help her get out of it.
I figured that showing her some of the joys of life might do, but it didn't.
I got her a new laptop, and she sold it to buy meth. At least she had the creance of formatting it, so eventually I got back the Steam credit.
I got her an electronics kit, and she sold it to buy meth.
I got her a small sailboat (only cost me $400 on craigslist, but I spent quite a few hours getting her seaworthy again) and she crashed it on the first outing after declaring that she had to come back to get a fix.
Eventually I told her to leave when I discovered that she was stealing from the "go to rat shack and grab a bag of resistors" prepaid card.
(Full disclosure: I don't do drugs because my brain chemistry is all over the place already, but am in favor of legalizing weed and shrooms - declaring an organism illegal only takes legitimity away from laws, and there are no hyperconcentration issues that way)