Law debate (potential trigger)...

Drugs are lethal by nature. Everytime you use your tossing that coin 50/50 you might die. Its a personal choice. If you give somebody a drug knowing its potential 50/50 chance that the person may or may not die is also a choice. One chose death. One chose a prison sentence. Life is about making choices.

*Guess I should have put I agree to all people being held accountable for their actions.

Personally, i don't.

I don't agree with pp's "one chose death" statement. Maybe worded wrong, but I don't think someone would choose that (if not suicidal). Yes it's a gamble to take substances, but if the person is a willing participant and just happens to overdose then I don't think that's the fault of whoever they bought from or took with.

I think at the very least the person who brought the drugs should get charged with reckless endangerment/manslaughter. Same as a drunk driver. You know if you hand someone illegal drugs, they may die.

In the drug instance, no. If I'm a minor and bring alcohol to friends my age, and they take prescription pills and alcohol that shouldn't be mixed, it's not my fault. There are too many factors involved.

But if I'm driving recklessly and someone dies, yes, I'm responsible. Except...I don't count speeding as reckless driving. So there are too many exceptions to make it a law.

Edit: Forgot about the key word felony. Never mind my examples.

I don't agree with it. I think people should be held accountable for their actual actions. For example; a group of teenagers break into a house. They get shot by the homeowner and one of them dies. The surviving teens are convicted of murder and spend the rest of their lives in prison. I don't think it's 'just'.

K - it does apply to OD in some states, there is an ongoing case right now in WV where a man is being charged with first degree murder because he and his friend went over to the friend's brother's house to get high and the brother OD'd and died. The man being charged with murder brought the heroin so they charged him with first degree murder.

Kvonq - the family of those kids were on Dr Phil and also in a documentary I watched about a week ago.

I don't think the distributor should face any consequence because it all relies on the person who consumes the drug. They made the choice to put it in their body, they should have to face the consequence.

Example: you go to the store to buy alcohol. You get drunk, get behind the wheel, and kill yourself. The cashier who sold it to you doesn't face any charges because you willing knew what would happen if you consumed it and went out and committed an act on life or death. Same with drugs. You bought the drugs and willingly knew what should happen, so it's your fault, not anyone else's.

Yes but the cashier wasn't committing a felony offense in your example when selling you the alcohol. That's the kicker here, since the death happened in conjunction with a felony, he's being charged with first degree.

In my state, anyone who gives drugs to a person who overdoses on the drug, you can be charged. I believe any bartender or person who sells alcohol to an intoxicated person who then goes and drives and hurts someone, they can be charged. It's illegal to sell alcohol to an intoxicated person here anyway. Same goes for someone who provides alcohol for a minor who either dies of alcohol poisoning or drives and hurts someone. I'm okay with all of it.

I agree with it

This law does not apply for over doses. An example of this law would be your the driver of a get away car in a robbery. While the robbery is taking place someone gets shot and killed. With this law you are just as guilty as the person who pulled the trigger and yes I agree with the law

This law does apply to overdoses in some states. WV is one of them, a man is being held on 1st degree murder charges for supplying heroin to someone who overdosed and died.

I think that is too extreme. If the person is willing to stick a needle in their own arm KNOWING the risk of what they are doing the distributor shouldn't be charged with murder. They should be charged with distributing illegal substances. A junkie will get it one way or another, not the distributors fault they OD unless they hotshot the person using. The only exception to this being if the person was under 18 they should be responsible for the death Seemings how a child can't even be seen at the ER without parents permission.