Follower of Jesus|Founder & President @EndItForGoodMS|TEDx Speaker|Author of Curious: A Foster Mom's Discovery of an Unexpected Solution to Drugs and Addiction
Apr 7, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Follow-up 🧵 to yesterday's on kids being safer with legal drugs. Walk this through with me:
I have a 13-year-old son. As far as I know he's never been offered drugs. We're teaching him about the risks of drug use.
But right now he could go buy illegal drugs. (1)
My son can buy drugs just as easily at 13 as a 33-year-old can. Not good! There are no age restrictions on the street. No one is checking ID. So already his access is greater under drug prohibition.
Legalization at least puts the vast majority of drugs behind a counter. (2)
Jun 24, 2021 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
(Thread) This afternoon I got a call from a man who just completed 14 years of probation for 2 felony drug possession charges. He got the good news that he was done with probation, then the bad news that he owes $3200 in fees and fines before his felony can be expunged. /1
For 14 years he hasn’t been able to find a decent job because of that felony, so how is he going to pay the fines related to the felony? Most recently he had a short-term job paying $400/week. He lives about 2 hours south of me in Mississippi. /2
