No one in City Hall or the insurance business has challenged these figures. First, a short-term loan of a quarter of a million dollars from the City. The City Council needs a new President to bring these actions into law. The second major issue is an open-minded reassessment of our approach to illegal drugs. There are strong arguments against both of these traditional approaches.
Money drives the drug trade.
Remove the profits, and the drug crisis becomes manageable. To Take the Profits Out of Drugs, the first step is to treat drug addiction as a medical problem, not a criminal problem. Set up a process whereby addicts can go to a clinic to purchase their drugs at prices so low that there would be no profit motive for illegal street trade. Furthermore, with no profits to be made, the incentive to addict new and younger users will be removed. With medical oversight, deaths from overdoses and impurities would be minimized.