there was a large sign outside of Trenton NJ that was visible from the train when we would go up to New York for a visit, "Trenton makes, the World takes." Alas, this is no longer true. The best way to stop the imbalance in the drug trade is to fully decriminalize it and eliminate the vast profits that can be made. I'm curious whether the current trend in the states to decriminalizing marijuana will have any impact on the use of other drugs.
You focus on the wrong factor.
Forget money for a second; consider the ruined lives instead.
Do you really, really believe that if drugs were freely and cheaply available in the local chemist or tobaconist shops, free of dangers from arrest or violence, that the number of folks who would never get out of bed short of crawling out to buy some more junk, would not increase dramatically?
The only way to beat the drugs business is to be serious, arrest the fat cats whose identities I am sure are known to the powers that be, arrest the users and
blame them, not give them hugs and more free, alternative crap to divert the dependency to something else. Those dickheads bring it on themselves, and can hardly plead ignorance! As Russ recently pointed out, modern folks don't like to use the word criminal when describing people who commit crime.
As with everything commercial: remove the market and the product vanishes.
America makes so many guns; use them to achieve, at last, some ultimate good!
(Almost time for another Q.E.D.)
Rob
