The key in legalization of all drugs is the Tax and Treat model. If we poured all of the taxation dollars of the drugs plus the savings in prisons, courts and policing into treatment programs you should be able to do better than we do now. Prevention and treatment of addicts would be the goal, funded by users.
If we don't want to legalize then we have to attack the demand side of the equation. That means preventing users from using the drug the first time. The only way to do that would be to make it highly punitive to use drugs. So Significant prison time for anyone using any drugs. Now this probably won't work but at least it attacks those who are at fault for the drug trade. The user.
The whole focus of attacking the supplier is wrong. Simple economics dictates that by restricting supply you just increase price. Since drug use is inelastic in terms of price restricting supply does little to curtail demand. As long as there is demand people will supply the drug at a price that takes into account the risk of doing buisness. If we don't attack the demand side we can't solve the problem.
So if you don't want to leagalize we need to make simple posession of Coke, crack, heroin, etc have significant prison terms and enforce them. Going after the dealers and distributers is a waste of time.
I perfer the tax and treat legalization route over the jail the user but what we do know is that attacking the supply has little to no effect on drug use.
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