I have to deal with tweakers every day at work. The problem is growing so rapidly I don't think we are ever going to eradicate the problem with conventional thinking. So I have come up with a solution, we place 55 gal. barrels full of meth, heroin, crack, etc.. in selected parks throughout the city. We stencil "FREE DRUGS when empty please call 555-555-5555 and they will be refilled in a timely fashion." to the sides of the barrels. Natural selection will take care of the rest. Those of us smart enough to know how stupid ingesting these substances is can sleep well at night knowing an addict wont be breaking into our cars, stealing our property or robbing us to support an out of control addiction. The added bonus will be the HUGE taxpayer revenue created when we stop funding the cash cow programs designed to combat drug use, that as far as I can see don't work anyway. I am willing to bet property and ID theft crimes will drop by as much as 80% and violent crimes will follow suite. No gangs killing each other for a cut of the illegal drug profits, no street corner dealers packing guns, no dead children in blown up meth houses and a police force with enough free time to actually make an impact on society instead of chasing their tail sending these people to the revolving door justice system. A justice system ill suited to deal with the wave of arrests drugs cause in the first place. Lastly how much money can we save not having these people incarcerated for years on end. One prisoner costs the US taxpayers 60,000 per year, multiply that by the 100s of thousands locked up for drug related crimes. That should take a massive chunk off the national debt, as well as a little tax relief to the average household.
What do you think?
What do you think?