Let's talk about drugs

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Want to win the stupid fucking war on drugs?  Here's how you do it:

1.  Make all drugs (literally, ALL) legal.

2.  Supply the drugs free of charge (at government cost) to any adult who wants them.

3.  Dispense the drugs only at 'Use Centres' - you come in, get your drugs, go into your little room, take your drugs, and you're not allowed to leave until you're no longer under the influence.

By making the drugs free and a government monopoly, you'd 1) save a fuck tonne of cash, 2) free up prison space, 3) eliminate the crimes associated with drugs 4) shatter the drug cartels.

Oh, sure, you can have rehab (also at no cost to the user) for people who want to get off drugs, blah blah blah.

Boru

If you're going to do that why not just have people pay for the drugs rather than forcing people who don't want to use drugs to pay also pay for them along with the drug users?

Because a significant part of the societal problems associated with drug use is what people have to do to get the money to pay for the drugs in the first place.  If governments were to subsidize (at 100%) drug use and rehab, you wouldn't have pensioners being beaten senseless by people who need a fix.

People who don't and never will use hard drugs are already paying for the cost of drug use, in terms of ludicrously high costs of catching, prosecuting, and (in many cases) jailing and warehousing drug users, not to mention investigating and prosecuting associated crimes. Since under the Boru Plan you wouldn't have to do all that, the drug-related cost to taxpayers would drop like a paralyzed falcon.

Boru