[ClearCase_guy]

I'd love to return to a world in which food, housing and medical care were only available to those who could work and support themselves. In a world like that, drug addicts die quickly, and pose much less of a social problem.

Sadly, our current society has mechanisms in place that allow a drug addict to survive for decades, committing crime after crime after crime.

[Army Air Corps]

Yep. When you remove the consequences for stupid behaviour, it continues. When you subsidise it, it flourishes.

[damondonion]

Legalize the **** and nobody would have to commit crimes to buy it. Abolish the “war on drugs(TM)” and 70* of American crime would evaporate almost instantly.