We live in a culture that peddles pills for every ill. We live in a civilization that seems to believe that life isn t worth living if it isn t on the edge. Both dictums are false. Life should be exciting and fun, but not always. And drug use is a dead, dead end.
Most illnesses are short term and pass on their own.
So its time to get our heads out of the sand. We need a truce in this war against drug users. We need to funnel the money into treatment programs. And we need to cut demand by working with users who have these problems. They can be solved, but not by hiring more guns and building more jails.