[jMyles]

> Yo guys, I know this may sound crazy to you, but have you thought about imprisoning those junkies?

Indeed, it sounds crazy. In fact, it's very close to the cliché definition of insanity: what you are proposing has been done over and over again, without a single successful example of prohibition in all of western political history.

But more than crazy, what you're suggesting sounds childish, expensive, and complicated. It does not sound like sober thinking about effective public policy to deal with the consequences of addiction.

A contrasting approach which is mature, affordable, and simple, is to legalize all plants and to create a controlled, safe market for plant derivatives like heroin. This will have the impact that is most important: it will disrupt the income stream of the drug cartels and dealers who, as I'm sure you already know, share your policy approach quite passionately.

[yznovyak]

I'm claiming that you are not having war on drug. At best you're doing jack shit, at worst you're actually sabotaging the war on drugs.

I wrote an exact same response to a sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19682651