But it’s cheaper. and, less overdoses.
It’s cheaper to give them all a free ride than to let them make their own way in the world? That makes no sense. I don’t know where you get the idea that there are less overdoses in prison but what difference does that make?
Drugs are readily available in prison, which proves the utter futility of drug prohibition in the first place.
If they can’t keep drugs out of PRISON (a true police state), how can anyone believe drug prohibition in a FREE society will be any more successful?