Do you think the US should try this?

[Playinghardball]

I'm all for trying it....

[RC]

1. Yeah, but look at all the law enforcement jobs that were lost.

How do they keep their prisons full?

[Cleita]

2. But who would make money from this?

Not the drug cartels or banks that launder the money.

[madokie]

3. I've been saying for a long time

that drug addiction should be dealt with in our medical profession, not in our judicial system. At best jail only makes hardened criminals out of otherwise mostly good people who need help who have taken the wrong path. Help them rather than punish them and it will go a lot further towards making a difference.

'The war on drugs,' just the words should tell us it is not the right approach.

[SamKnause]

4. Try this

This will not happen in the US.

The population is too religious, too uneducated on the subject of drugs, and brainwashed by the lies the DEA spews.

Another issue, the police will not give up their rights to steal your car, house, boat, property etc.

The US is filled with ignorant vengeful people.

Intelligent people know this is the right approach.

Unfortunately, intelligent people do not govern the US.

[avebury]

5. But that makes too much sense and could interfer

with the growth industry of private prisons.

[Jamaal510]

6. Weed definitely,

but I don't know about harder drugs like crack and meth.

[herding cats]

7. Addiction is a public health issue.

One that US is not about to decriminalize anytime soon. The "war on drugs" is a very productive source of income for many in this country. There's not much hope of addiction being treated like anything other than an opportunity for profit because of that.

[CFLDem]

8. Exactly

It's the one war that never ever ends.