Let's talk about drugs

[Homeless Nutter]

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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

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I doubt that would work very well.

First of all - people like to take drugs socially. Sure - a junkie jonesing for a fix may go into a little room for a bunch of hours, if it gets him some heroin, but most people prefer to get high at parties, and/or in familiar, comfortable environment - they'd still be buying drugs, either legally, or otherwise. You don't take cocaine or X to sit idly in a room.

Secondly - how do you propose the "customers" should be prevented from smuggling the free drugs out of the "Use Centres" and using them at their leisure, or selling them on? Full body cavity search for everybody? Most drug users are not junkies, deprived of dignity by addiction; if legal drug use involved too much hassle, or humiliation - illegal drug trade would still go on.

Thirdly - when a junkie is no longer under the influence of drugs - it's time to get another dose, meaning addicted people would essentially have to live at those "Use Centres", or - if there were some limitations on how long you can stay at one of those places - they'd be constantly rotating between them.