The key, to me, is that drugs do not give you choices. Alcohol, as long as you don't stew in it, doesn't ruin you. Tobacco just makes you sick. Weed just makes you distracted.

Meth, coke, and heroine, in particular, ruin you. After you use those, you aren't a good person, and you don't get a choice in that. Why should the government then respect your non-choice?

I think the answer is medical treatment and recovery treatment, not prison, but the distributors should die. We should kill them. All of them. Every time.