Is Giving A Homeless Person $ For Drugs STO?

[Jade]

   Is giving cash for drugs to a homeless person service to others?
   Is giving a young child to a pedophile service to others?
   I have had the blessing of having known people who worked extensively with homeless people, and they told me that you never never ever ever give cash to a homeless person, because cash is not what they need.
   If a homeless person is hungry, you can buy them a sandwich and a bottle of water, or give them an apple and a bottle of water, or a box of crackers and a bottle of water.
   If a homeless person needs socks, you can give them socks.
   If a homeless person needs a jacket, you can give them a jacket.
   Sometimes it helps them to just sit with them and listen to their story.
   The use of drugs provides a gateway for demonic attachment.  One of the reasons why people who do not need marijuana for medical survival want to smoke it, is because the beginnings of demonic attachment feel delightful.

I hope this is a joke. Being homeless or being an addict is not a moral failing like someone who abuses children. To compare the two is absolutely heinous. In fact most people are addicted to something, be it food, caffeine, prescription drugs, television, internet outrage, etc etc. Is giving an overweight person a piece of cake the same as giving a child to a pedophile? Is it a demon that makes them overeat? 

I've smoked marijuana for 14 years, am I someone who seems to have a demonic attachment? Does Aion appear to be someone who has a demonic attachment? Heck, even Carla smoked marijuana, do you think she had a demonic attachment? I would argue that absolutely every homeless person needs medical help for either physical or mental ailments. Do you think giving someone Xanax for anxiety or depression is automatically better than marijuana because a doctor has written a prescription? Because I've experienced both and let me tell you, one of these things causes actual brain damage and the other is a plant that has been used by positively oriented people for thousands of years. Or are you the judge on whether someone "needs" medicine or not and therefore the judge of who gets demonic attachment from smoking an herb? 

Homeless people need compassion and there is nothing wrong with giving them cash. Pretending like giving cash is a problem is just an excuse to be stingy and without compassion for their constant, daily suffering. Plus, a homeless person can still trade socks or a sandwich for drugs if that's what they feel they need the most in the moment. Places where drugs have been decriminalized and even offered for free to addicts have a higher rate of healing addiction than places that perpetuate the shame and stigma of having an addiction. Just because you know people who have worked with homeless people doesn't mean you are an expert by any means, in fact you sound extremely ignorant about this issue.