Drug users

I just read a news article about a woman walking around inside of a Walmart for six hours taking small amounts of chemicals from various bottles so she could make meth while in the store. She had only been out of jail for three days and didn't have enough money to buy the supplies so she was stealing what she needed and using them to make her drugs.

I understand addiction. One of my brothers (gone now) was an alcoholic. Most of my brothers and sisters were smokers. All of us have eating compulsions. But we never made went down the path of a drug being so important that nothing else in life mattered.

I am more than a bit tired of drug users and the problems they cause so here is my solution. First give them counseling. But if they still want drugs after that then give them the drugs. Free. But in a controlled situation. Build a large city/prison out in the desert somewhere to house 10,000 people. People who want to have free drugs have to live in the city while they are getting the drugs and they have to voluntarily get sterilized so they can't have children. If they are willing to do that then give them their drugs and a small amount of food per day and let them be stoned until they die and make room for the next person.

My point is that there is no curing these people and there is no hope of keeping drugs out of their hands, so if they are so determined to live a short but drug filled life then let them. But make them do it in a way that keeps from harming the rest of the population. After 20 years or so we should have our addict population narrowed down quite a bit, and since they aren't having children we should eliminate those whose genes lead them to such extremes.