I remember seeing a documentary about meth, and the recovery programs are a joke. We need to start really executing the dealers, confiscate their money to pay for the investigations, and you’ll see drug dealing and use drop like a rock.
The Chinese were forced to endure opium dealing in their country (forced on them by the British) and forcibly addicted by the Japanese. NO wonder they execute people for it. They know the realities and thing is, our justice system is a joke.
The next time some suburban dip-wit decides to deal a little pot, maybe the threat of confiscating all the family assets will force parents to start paying attention to their brat whelp’s activities.
I think that if parents faced losing their homes, bank accounts, trophy toys, they would be making sure that their brat kids aren’t messing around with dealers and selling.
If we had rock solid proof that someone was distributing and dealing, we could drag them to the prisons that house death row prisoners, move them forward, with a quick stroke of the pen, we could have them executed in a week.
The only reason drug addiction is so widespread is because we have some delusion that dealers and users are all good people at heart. reality is, they love drugs and the money it brings more than anyone else.