the jimmymac attack!

Almost one month in Vancouver. It is good. It does rain here a lot but not every day. Sometimes the sun comes out. Other times its cloudy and there's been some foggy days lately. There are a lot of homeless people here and drug addicts. It is a very sad reality here. However it seems to be a systemic on-going problem that will not go away soon. For example there are about 1,000 young people living on the streets. Many of these young people will probably become the homeless and addicts of the future. And the old ones die off or end up in slums or whatever. And so the beat goes on and on. The problem is often sighted by politicians and citizens as a high priority. But there doesn't seem to be any solution in sight. I have a friend who went back to college for two years to become an addiction counsellor. He knows a lot about the subject and would make a great counsellor. He cannot get a job in that field. Why? No jobs. There are thousands of homeless and addicts and no jobs for people who want to work to help them.
Our society is obsessed with money and making money and acquiring more material things. People are not important. Let them live on the street and go through garbage to try to survive. Who cares? I think that drugs should be made legal or decriminalized. They should be regulated and taxed. Then the millions of dollars spent and made from drugs would not go to the criminals. The tax money could be used to fund treatment for the addicts and education so young people do not get hooked.