*crickets chirping*

…anyway, he definitely makes a good point. Living on the west coast I hear news stories all the time of drug cartels growing marijuana in state parks. Think that will happen if it is legalized and regulated by the government?

Oh wait, I forgot how well Prohibition on alcohol worked. Silly me.

But I do want to point that even though drug legalisation may not get many Republican delegates cheering, I don’t think Peter needs to worry about them.

Also, please consider that heroin addicts are very ill people and need to be treated, not abandoned and even imprisoned. The Netherlands spends about than €130 million per year on facilities for addicts, of which about fifty percent goes to drug addicts whose numbers have stabilised. Their GDP is 860B.

That may sound like a lot, but to put it in perspective, we here in the USA have spent over $19 billion dollars since 2003 on the War on Drugs. Thats about $600 per second. The math just doesn’t check out.

Peter solution makes sense. It cheaper to treat these ill people than it is to incarcerate them.