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Originally Posted by MothBalls
I disagree.
You create the supply yourself and control it.
In the US we should give away free heroin, meth, and all of the addictive drugs that make junkies commit crimes. In exchange for getting it free, they have to attend short [10 minute] lectures on rehab, offer them help to kick the habit, and help them take control. Bottom line is a junkie is going to be a junkie until he/she decides to stop. Until they make that choice, give em the crap they need without forcing them into prostitution or other criminal activity that preys on society.
Then legalize and tax the crap out of recreational drugs like pot. Make is a legitimate crop, legal to import and put tariffs on. Control it like alcohol.
Then we wouldn't have drug cartels terrorizing border towns. They'd go broke. It would take all of the drug money out of the hands of organized crime and could then be controlled and possibly slowly eliminated.
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The problem with that idea is that yoru subsidizing bad habits. So what happens with the kid who is 14 now walks into the "clinic" at 18 and wants to have a hit.... You legalize it - your going to never end the problem.
Lock down the borders where the stuff can't come in - and the supply inside the country will dry up. Can't shoot what you don't have.
I am not talking about pot here - we are talking the serious stuff.Its just like meth - most states now track sales of stuff like cold medicine that can make it. Take away the ingredients (or in the case of other drugs - the finished product prior to shipment) and the problem eases.
You can either fight the problem - or "accept" it. Acceptance means its never going away...