My honest solution is remove every last bit of assistance for any addict or anyone who tests positive for meth, coke, heroin or fentanyl. No more medical treatment. No narcan. Let em die in the streets This will cause them to steal. Allow people who are victims of theft to use deadly force to protect their property. Itll take a bit but i think evolution will take place.
Or we just legalize it all, keep our bs laws and penalties for property and drug crimes, open our borders and let Biden run us into (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman). So basically stay right on track for where we are heading.

Drugs should be treated and excepted just like alcohol is, and prostitution for that matter. There are red light districts and bar strips in many towns. Most family's know not to move to that area. Let the drunks and drug addicts (same thing) have it. Most towns have a place down by the railroad tracts or under bridges where drunks hang out. Remember skid row was built by drunks back in the day. Now they share it with drug addicts. Keep them contained to one area that works for me.

Scabby faced lookin bunch.

People who want to be dope fiends are dope fiends. The drugs are available now to anyone who wants them. There wont be more addicts. There are not more ethanol addicts now than when it was illegal. At least not if you use percentage of population figures.

We spend untold trillions of dollars playing whack a mole with narcotic distribution. We fill our prisons with users and dealers. The money generated by narcotics is more than all most any other single industry. Without the burden of taxation.

All that money creates criminal enterprise commonly called gangs. The gangs exist to protect the drug trade. Just like when ethanol prohibition brought Mafia to the U.S. now its organized crime to distribute narcotics.

All that money has corrupted law enforcement, judges and politicians. The only way drugs are as common as they are, while being illegal, is corruption from the traffic cop up to the white house.

Thieves dont go to prison any more. No room. Murderers are doing 8-10 years.

Meanwhile politicians are taking your rights and using the drug trade as an excuse. All the killing going on between rival gangs is the excuse to disarm you. Cash being used to buy and sell narcotics is why L.E. can and will steal your cash . Doesn't matter if its to buy a car on craigslist or just money in your gun safe cause you dont like banks. Drugs are the reason L.E. can search your vehicle, your person, and now sometimes your home, without ever getting permission from a judge first. Law enforcement has turned into an arm of the military. More concerned with doing things like fining people for not wearing seatbelts or having an unlicensed yard sale than arresting a shop lifter or even a burglar.

My question is what benefits has the war on drugs given us if they are still available everywhere and anybody who wants them has them?????????????

Stop the government assistance and let the victims of home invasions and theft make the corrections.

You don’t feel as bad putting down a rabid dog, unlike one that just has lost it’s mind. lol

Should only things that have some sort of benefit to society be legal?

can anybody cite a single benefit of the war on drugs?

looks to me like they only thing it has accomplished is propaganda to convince people that giving up freedom and their rights is a good thing, is working

DRUGS ARE EVERYWHERE READILY AVAILABLE TO ALL

The war on drugs has only resulted in money for politicians, full prisons, more criminals, less freedom, and dead cops.

Yes, I can cite a benefit Danny. If you are a member of a drug cartel, the war on drugs funnels all the drug money your way. It creates a monopoly for you and the profit margins are excellent, I'm sure.

You keep asking the same question but nobody will tell you that the expensive effort of the war on drugs has been effective. It's obvious it hasn't. I'm not smart enough to tell you what will work, but maybe we should look for a different idea. Remember, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

If you make heroin legal, over the counter then you would have to make all drugs and medicines legal and over the counter, with out govt control the prices would spiral down. The Big Pharma will not let this happen.

So for all these guys who have the answers and want to end “the war on drugs”, put ur money where ur mouth is and provide a solution.

I dont think anything will work. We will always have people who choose drugs. We will always have poor, we will always have thieves, and those who prey on other humans. We cant stop any of it. When we lock up addicts we are not protecting anybody. Not even the addict. They get drugs in prison. When we lock up those who prey on other humans we are protecting their victims. Long sentences for predators is a good thing. Protects the public.

Jail sentences for drug offenders does not do anyone any good

Just end it. There's your solution.

Government generally creates more problems with its solutions.

Excellent common sense answer.
Mac

These are the drugs;


And this is a recent look at a slice of Portland after Oregon decriminalized hard drugs.



The mayor of Portland now calls it literally. "A cesspool."

The hard core libertarians would argue semantics... "decriminalizing isn't the same as legalizing."
Maybe so.
I doubt the tent city homeless could care less about semantics.

I'm pretty sure Portland looked like that long before hard drugs were decriminalized.

If it's being smoked in that fashion then it's most likely crack. Meth is typically too expensive for the homeless and isn't cooked up like that. Nor is heroin. Their pipes are glass tubes with a piece of copper mesh in the end. The mesh keeps the crack rock from melting into their mouth when they heat it but it still allows the fumes to be inhaled. They'll usually put the rock in the tip of the pipe. If they're heating it on the tinfoil then they're chasing it around while it melts and it leaves "booger marks" on the foil.

Heroin is typically heated in a spoon and drawn up through a cigarette filter or piece of cotton to get rid of the solid debris before injecting it. It can also be smoked or snorted but it's not as common.

Yes it did. So did L.A. Now that they are decimalized its gotten worse. Can't deny that. Addicts from all over the country are buying bus tickets, hopping trains, hitch hiking and everything else they can dream up to move there. Same thing happened in Colorado when marijuana was made legal. Homeless population doubled. Not from people already there but people flocking in to smoke weed without being prosecuted.

Hard drugs are killers. Often faster than soft drugs like ethanol and nicotine. I have not heard anyone say different. I just fail to see any benefits to prohibition for those of us who are footing the bill.

Personally I realize we will always have welfare programs in spite of all the harm they do. Time to do blood tests for narcotics. Fail and no more welfare.

I land pretty close to Adler on these (and other) life situations.