There are more than enough reasons to put someone behind Bars. Pot is without a doubt the most profitable. Remember, prisons are an industry not a correctional programme, they are in it for the bucks.

Heroin is delt with in methadone programs in Australia, but as an international crop, it feeds a lot of third world families in Afghanistan and The Golden Triangle. These people need the Drug lords arrested and the users need to meet their own needs. Insted of breaking into our houses, they should grow their own.

Most theft is drug related. If the state supplies drugs free to users and addicts it can provide support to them.

Anphetamenes are a problem though, there is no treatment program, we have Ice at the moment, this is expensive and sends users into psychosis very quickly compared to speed. The is not another drug to treat these ones with though, and the users are a lot more violent than dope smokers.

I think users need to be identified and removed from some jobs, heavy earth moving equipment etc and drugs supplied freely under medical supervision. Methadone was a product from the Nazis to keep the solders comming back, some users don't like that, for them there is bubamorphine, I think a regulated supply of heroin is a natural addition to such programs.

Pot, is easy to grow, so users should grow their own, it should still be illegal to sell it, as then children are placed in the same addiction that needs money problems that users all face now.

Age limits on alchole and tobacco demostrate the difficulties we face in the future when such bold health initiatives are trialled. Needle park and Harm Minimisation strategies are the other best options under conservative state regemes. Clean Needles and safe injecting rooms, stop the spred of Hep C and Aids, clean up used picks and again, keep away from occupations where their drug use endangers others.

Drugs are bad K! It is true, prohibition and punishment don't work either.

This is a huge problem and dealing with it will save lives, protect children/addicts and cut crime, not dealing with it is costing lives, police, users small dealers and inocent bystanders.