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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
I can guarentee you the cost of policing, prosecuting, jailing, treating, following people out of prison on probation and washing, rinsing, and repeating because the cycle never ends is substantially more costly than treaing a few more people. In fact I'd bet its a tens of billions of dollars difference. As always its cost versus benefit. It costs an exceptional amount to prohibit drugs, and its stopping nothing and actually the problem is getting worse. Lets stop wasting money shall we?
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He's talking about more than just money costs. The goal of the system you criticize is also one of rehabilitation, and certainly not the absolute failure you describe.
If you're saying lets just throw our hands up and deal with the fallout, I'll stick with the current system.