Selling, purchasing, and possessing hard drugs like cocaine and heroin is illegal, yes?
But just having them in your system and being addicted is perfectly legal and you can seek treatment and not have to fear legal repercussions, yes?
So if a person who has drugs in their system can't be arrested.............why in the hell can't the police interrogate these people and demand to know where they got their drugs from in the first place?
Demand the identity and location of their dealers. Go to the source. Arrest the bastard. Because while the "victim" might be seeking rehab and can't be arrested.....the DEALER is the one breaking the law.
Can't cops do that? There should be cops at every rehab clinic, interviewing everyone. Doing investigations. Setting up stings.
And if the addicts refuse to give up their dealers........then they are aiding and abetting criminals, which IS an arrestable offense.
These pathetic addicts don't get to walk free unless the dealers go down.
this kind of thinking is why we have so much fent nowadays, you guys lock up all the H dealers oh yeah and then they go on to re-offend because now they don't have a job or home