Obviously, jailing people for wanting to get high feels totalitarian, but...

Can we not have a common sense 'don't be a pain in the ass' approach to this shit, where it doesn't matter what you're huffing so long as you're not being a fucking nuisance because of it? I know that in a sense, that's already how things are, because if you're not being a nuisance, you're unlikely to be caught.

The junkies will make a nuisance of themselves and you can crack down on them and have them sober up in jail, and the people who have a handle on their drug use... won't end up in jail.

That would encourage people to avoid being blazed out of their minds in the streets, unlike this which allows them to be blazed out of their minds in the streets if they let some useless social worker chat to them for a bit.

Crack down on problem users. Ignore the ones who aren't a problem.

Obviously, jailing people for wanting to get high feels totalitarian, but...

Can we not have a common sense 'don't be a pain in the ass' approach to this shit, where it doesn't matter what you're huffing so long as you're not being a fucking nuisance because of it? I know that in a sense, that's already how things are, because if you're not being a nuisance, you're unlikely to be caught.

The junkies will make a nuisance of themselves and you can crack down on them and have them sober up in jail, and the people who have a handle on their drug use... won't end up in jail.

That would encouraging people to avoid being blazed out of their minds in the streets, unlike this which allows them to be blazed out of their minds in the streets if they let some useless social worker chat to them for a bit.

Crack down on problem users. Ignore the ones who aren't a problem.