Just cut off all state aid, welfare entitlements, free medical care, whatever. They'll soon go the way of the Dodo bird.
Yes, it sounds harsh, but having worked undercover amongst the druggie world, no one will miss them. Least of all those who work and make things happen.
I’ll agree that they shouldn’t abuse state aid and freebies, but they are separate issues.
Linked in some ways, but separate.
We don’t want to be around druggies because they are dangerous and unpleasant. We can’t cut all aid without watching people die etc. So here’s what we do:
Pick some cheap land in some hellhole part of Nevada. Make everything legal there with no public funds whatsoever. No emergency personnel, no law enforcement, no nothing. The scum of the Earth will be drawn to it like moths to a candle. Even have cities sick of the druggies offer free bus service to it.
It would be like a roach motel. Many would never return. Those that do come back out would be searched first for drugs. Maybe they would die. Maybe they would learn. In any case it would be a free market solution far from us and our communities.
That’s how you drain the swamp. It would suck the worst of them away from the schools etc.