You want druggies to pay their "fines" at the register and simply change the word to "tax"?

What about the Attorney's cut?

How's that gonna fly past any legislature made up of, wassatagain?

Do you realize how many folks your putting out of work?

What about the guy who bakes bread for the jailhouse?

He got a gubment contract - cost him dearly to get it.

Some lawyer with connections got it for him.

How's he supposed to feed his kids if you let his customers go free?

And what about the court docket, how's the judge sposed to scrape up da dough to put his kids through Havad if his caseload disappears.

Its no secret that . . .

If anyone really wanted to make an impact on drugs, the first thing would be to avoid courtrooms. If the DEA adamantly refused to enter a courtroom or prosecute - anyone, they could use their resources to train dogs to sniff out and simply destroy the fruits of that effort.

Who's gonna hold them accountable? Without a pending case, search and seizure violations are caput.

What good does it do to send person 1 into one door, while person 2 goes out the other?

If the supply / demand situation remains the same the benefit is zilch.

Unless you're a lawyer!

Is is any wonder that with all the dough spent the drug industry, legal and otherwise flourishes all round the planet.

Think about that next time you read about someone caught smuggling American made AIDS pills back into the U. S.

Makes you want to put some people up on gurneys and show them getting their due (via drugs for poetic justice) on closed circuit TV.