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Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45
The only thing that can solve addiction is rehab and preventing its use in the first place. Making it illegal will push addicts to the black market, which is not positive in any way.
Like my safe sex example, real education about drugs will prevent its use as much as possible without resorting to overly expensive and rights eating methods. With legalization, addicts will be easier to spot and money can go to rehabilitation to actually help the problem.
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Sorry but that does not follow the common sense rule for me. Make it more available, and then redirect the money to rehab. Which essentially is an admission that you made a problem but you are going to have the money to treat it, so no problem. I can't buy that. Certainly taking money from the current approach and redirecting to better education it is one thing, similar to what is being done with smoking. The anti-smoking approach has been effective in decreasing the number of people who smoke, in the form of education and bans on when and where you can smoke. You are going to have a hard time convincing me that legalization of heroin and cocaine is a good thing.