Again in the news someone has said the war on drugs isn't working:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24320717
I just can't fathom how at a time where we're cutting so many things, we don't look at how much money we could save by helping drug addicts, rather than imprisoning them.


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).... if funding 'your habit' ends up being cheaper than funding the results of the current system, like, oh, the costs of policing drugs, and perhaps worse, the costs of funding the crime wave it leads to, then it may well actually be a lot cheaper for the taxpayer to fund the habit than to not fund it.
