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If the past century of failed US drug policies have taught us anything, it should be this: You cannot address drug addiction as simply a supply side problem. You have to also respond to the demand side. In practice this means providing affordable/free medical care for willing addicts and providing them with gainful employment in safe environments. You also have to provide plenty of jobs - with the state or federal government if the private sector cannot not step up. These jobs need to provide a living wage to every adult willing to work. This will not be cheap and it will also require building additional housing in depressed areas.... Are we going to try to be good Samaritans or are we a nation that wants Trump as dictator of a police state?

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Gee, if only there were some type of metaphor to organize America's battle against dangerous illegal drugs and describe the effort to combat their importation and abuse. What could you call something like that, I wonder?

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Whatever you call it, the first word has got to be, "Failed"

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"Abandoned" or "surrendered" come to mind as appropriate adjectives.

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