> There's a middle ground between our terrible war on drugs and the naive "make it all legal and experiment with heroin!" I wholeheartedly agree. a couple goog

> There's a middle ground between our terrible war on drugs and the naive "make it all legal and experiment with heroin!" I wholeheartedly agree. a couple google searches showed buying alcohol for a minor was a $1000 fine, but heroin possession for personal use is $20000 and a year in jail. I think there's room to scale back the penalties and still be a deterrent. I think there's room to scale up addiction recovery. Hell, keep the horrible penalties, but waive them if the accused, with counseling and whatever other support makes sense, can stay clean for a year. So much of the system is about papering over problems rather than fixing the root cause.