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This country needs a leader who is not afraid to fix problems. It needs a leader who will step on the law breakers, agitators, and pettifoggers. I'm talking about a man who will look at a problem and order an immediate resolution that is shockingly just. Elect a Man like that as President and all our worries will go away. This President would be like any poster here on FR. Know what needs to be done now, and know his own limitations. As a society the Western world has gotten away from that type of thinking. Whats worse is that is how became so successful in the world and we're throwing that away.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure America got to be a great country by allowing cops to execute the folks they thought were guilty. As a matter of fact, I think that might be in the Constitution right after the section where it says 'the President just needs to sign Executive Orders or Treaties and he can do whatever he wants.'

/blistering sarcasm

Inefficiency is part of democracy. The problem is that it should be a significantly smaller part of a contitutional one such as ours. Losing faith in elected government because you fear methheads is silly, though. Benevolent despots are about as frequent as purple polka-dotted alligators, and if you back a strongman because he'll get things done, you'll probably be one of them.

What you are really suggesting is that we destroy what our forefathers built in order to save it. Toss the Constitution out the window. With a supreme leader enforcing all of the laws for us, state governments would be useless. Federalism would be pointless and only get in our supreme leader's way. While we're at it, we don't need Congress making federal laws if we have an all powerful supreme leader who knows what's best for us. They'd probably just get in his way too so we can send them all home. And of course we'd need to throw out the Constitutional right to due process of law before being deprived of life, liberty, or property. Forget about the Constitutional right to confront your accusers in a trial by jury, that just wastes time. In fact, why would we even need a judicial branch at all if police can just execute people on the spot at the behest of our supreme leader? All we would need is our supreme leader with underlings that answer directly to him and a huge federal police force that act as the supreme leader's roving death squads. Everything would be all better then.

The real truth of the matter is that even totalitarian states have drug problems. China still has a drug problem. Iran and even Singapore have worse heroin problems than us. They may be able react quicker and kill a lot of folks, but the drug problems still remain, and in some cases can be worse than what we see in our own country.

Something you have to live with is that a small minority of people in this country are going to use the really hard drugs that are extremely addictive and small percentage of those who try these drugs will end up becoming addicted and most of those will be a problem to the rest of us to varying degrees. This is just a fact of life that we have to deal with. How we deal with them is not an easy question to answer. You would suggest that we kill them all, but realistically that isn't going to happen in this country. Do you have other suggestions? A plan "B" perhaps?