Another good reason for legalizing and monitoring drugs. It would change society totally. Some of the most dangerous and addictive drugs are already legal and available by prescription, as Oxycodone, etc.
I'm With you on legalizing/decriminalizing them, but not on monitoring.
Not one cent for monitoring or rehab.
Let them use and die on the street.
Most rehab is based on the AA 12 step pantload.
AA's actual success rate has been put at between 5% to 8%.
http://psychroaches.blogspot.com/2015/03/alcoholics-anonymous-another-colossal.htmlThat's a 92% to 95% probability that the AA sucker Will dive back into the jug even deeper than they were Before they got 12 Stepped on.
Let users lose it, on the street, where people can See what using actually Is.
No lesson like an object lesson, especially for those who think they can 'Handle the stuff'.
Talk your young kids for a walk.
They will ask, 'What's wrong with that person?
Just tell them the truth, and there goes junior's desire to try the stuff when it's offered to them in school.
Anyone who really wants to clean up will do it themselves.
No amount of monitoring and/or counseling is going to do it for them.
As for Prescription drugs, the FDA is nothing more than Pharma's Marketing Dept.
And Pharma, if we had legislators who weren't pimping for them, would be in a World of DOJ hurt for Federal Racketeering Violations in a heart beat.