Maybe drugs should just be legalized (but regulated, quality controlled and supplemented with referrals to counseling)<p>The war on drugs has high costs to society, and helps to drive up prices of drugs unnecessarily, causing financial distress and criminality in addicts.<p>Treating drug use as a criminal offense rather than as a disease, means you take a single problem "substance abuse" and then create a 2nd criminal problem on top of it.<p>Even the billionaire George Sorros crafted a systematic plan, that coupled with legalization, solves nearly all the problems people expect to accompany the suddenly cheap access to drugs.<p>Why the world will not use logic on this matter is beyond me.<p>Lets consider all the harm caused by alcohol - believe you me it is a lot - drunk driving, alcoholism, liver scheloris and cancer risk increase plus a ton of other health costs....<p>But all that pales in comparison to the damage that was done by prohibition.<p>There's also the recent example of all the benefits of legalizing cannabis.<p>Drug laws need to be reformed.<p>The war on drugs IS the problem, not the solution.
Third time today this article was posted.<p>Original comments here:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10530795" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10530795</a>