Not really, GUEST... You are grossly generalizing what you think a junkie is... Most "junkies" hold jobs and don't fit yout stereotype at all... Most "junkies" battle their addictions and go for periods of time drug free... See, you are lumping everyone into one mold... Ain't that easy...

Okay, sure, there are a few folks who are just trying to medicate themselves literally to death and those folks, if the drugs are made avaialabe, might be required to arrend some counseling sessions in order ro get the drugs... But if you have taken the gangsters out of the senerio, hey, the program is the only game in town... I could also see "junkie communes" where folks could live with other "junkies" and with just minimal funding could be pretty much self supporting communities/programs... Lot cheaper and far more humanistic than ofrcin' folks to rub elbows with gansters, then lockin' 'um up...

Bobert