[MrLeRoy]

We could just pay nothing and not do incarceration nor treatment, but I can't see how that wouldn't be ignoring the problem.

And what happens if we ignore the problem?

[Tony Niar Brain]

I don't know exactly what would happen, but if it's anything like in China during the Opium War in the 1840's, a nation of people with little understanding or refuge from the consequences of excessive drug use can have disastrous consequences on society.

[stuartcr]

It would probably be like it is today with alcohol.