[dennisw]

With meth it comes down to two choices. Who do you want dead? The dealers or the idiots, so weak they use it? Execute the dealers and cookers and the users will decline in numbers.

Kill off the supply and the suppliers.

[FITZ]

Supply and demand with addictive drugs can be misleading. It sounds easy to say eliminate the demand and the supply will go away --- but with addiction, the supply has to exist first --- there is no demand when people haven't first become addicted.

[tacticalogic]

Kill off the supply and the suppliers.

Sumary executions, or billion dollar investments in death row facilities and maintenance?

[BobS]

Teddy Kennedy should go to the next State of the Union on meth, instead of alcohol.

[sphinx]

Who do you want dead? The dealers or the idiots, so weak they use it?

I sometimes think the solution is a voluntary quarantine. Just open a junkie ranch -- a legal reservation in a mild climate that offered pup tents, free food (nothing fancy; military rations would do) and unlimited drugs of your choice. Most of the users would kill themselves pretty quickly, but that's their business and it would clear the streets of the dead end cases. Any outsider who wanted to do reclamation work could open the mission of his choice, and any user who wanted to leave could do so after testing clean in a rigorous program lasting at least a year.

[Constantine XIII]

He he, supply side economics at it's finest. :)

[bc2]

If your solution to the drug war and our problem with methamphetamines is to kill dealers because that will stop the desire of people to do meth, let me offer you some advice.

1- please take a simple class in economics. Supply depends on demand, without a demand the supply will dry up, and if there is a demand there will always be people to supply. This is a fact of life and killing people won't change this simple economic law.

2- please take a history class, because we have been attacking the war on drugs from the supply side for about 30 years now and the problem keeps getting worse.

3- get some common sense because you seem to want to repeat failed policies over and over again, that's called idiocy.

Meth is dangerous, and there are solutions, but not the same "solutions" we have been trying for years which have only made the problem worse.