TREAT DRUGS AS ADDICTION, NOT CRIME

Nowadays the medical community pretty much agrees that addiction is
a disease. It doesn't much matter what the thing you are addicted to
is, just that a person is addicted to it - drugs, alcohol, smoking,
TV, food, sex or chocolate. They all agree that prohibition doesn't
cure addiction; it only exacerbates the problem.

The drug war is the government's chosen approach to curing addiction.
Since prohibition cannot cure prohibition, then why do we continue
this course of action?

We could easily tax and regulate marijuana like alcohol. With hard
drugs, you could make them available to addicts through their doctor
with the provision that the doctor have them in rehab within a year of
them registering with him. If a person is loaded in public; rehab. If
they are loaded and do a crime; rehab and pay for your crime. End of
drug war!

Thomas Vance

Alexandria