> What’s the point of investing in drug treatment when it’s super easy to get and get hooked on drugs? We let people mainline sugar to the point where they get

> What’s the point of investing in drug treatment when it’s super easy to get and get hooked on drugs? We let people mainline sugar to the point where they get diabetes[1], but we spend lots of money on holistic treatment to make sure that its manageable is as little medical intervention as possible (continuous blood sugar monitoring is awesome) Substance abuse is more often than not a symptom of other things. > On the one hand, we are saying the drugs are not harmful enough to criminalize I would say that mischaracterises the issue. I would suggest that its a case of lesser of two evils. An entire shadow economy worth billions, with no regulation and no qualms about killing people for profit, and is the cause of most petty crime, or cutting out a money supply to crime, but you need to change the way you spend on support and care of addicts. [1] its mot complex than that, and also depending on what type you have.