Drugs 3

  "I have the solution to the drug problem in this country, nobody wants to hear it but I have it. Not less drugs, more drugs...." - Dennis Leary

Not exactly what I'm going to say but close enough. The real problem with drugs isn't the drugs themselves, it's with what they finance. Legalize every single one, allow them to be sold like cigarettes, and tax the sh*t out of them. Doing this will not only get rid of a huge portion of OCs income, but also give the government an income they didn't have before. Also with drugs being controlled by the government, they will be more controlled, in both the making of and selling of. Research them, do studies, run ads, raise public awareness of what drugs do to people long term and short.

If the government does all that then after the initial drug craze, drug use should settle down. Also in theory with less money and with drugs no longer being illegal, crime should also drop.

Now before you think I'm a druggie or a hippie who wants drugs legal so I can do it legally, I'm not, I don't do drugs, at least not anymore and I have no future plans to do so, legal or not.

  Please bear in mind this is only a theory as I have no example that is known to me, however I beleieve it has to be better then present strategy which obviously doesn't work. Short of military police and dictatorship, invasion of privacy and destruction of every human rights known to man (almost) this is the only way I see of solving the drug problem.