if hard drugs are legal, do you think that should or should not be a basis for deciding on child custody between divorced parents?
Of course it should.
Should evidence of hard drug use justify social services going into a home to at least temporarily take away children?
Of course it should.
Basically, are you going to pretend that hard drug use by parents doesn’t pose an inherent threat to children?
Of course it does.
You know what else does? Alcoholism.
I think hard drug use poses a far greater threat to children. If I see a parent buying a bottle of hard liquor versus buying meth, I’m going to have a very different view of that, as it seems you would also. If hard drugs have a lessened stigma and are more readily available, more people are going to use. Parents addicted to hard drugs may let their children be exploited in addition to neglecting them. For this increased negative possibility, the benefit is what? Greater freedom for people to mess their lives up as drug addicts?