As for dealers, there are 2 kinds, the ones that sell to support there own use & those that sell purely for profit. As to the 1st they should be treated with the viewpoint of rehab, the 2nd should be treated as a career criminal, & should get the punishment due them.
It's a crap shoot as to what make one kid who smokes pot go on to harder things & another to go no further or quite altogether. Loving familys, education, need to self medicate, there are any number of individual reasons that someone decides to take the path of drug use. But the best deterrant is drug education, which is sadley lacking.
There was a war on drugs that was fought yrs ago, we lost & we gave up. There hasn't been a real war on drugs for many yrs & it doesn't look like there's one on the horizion. Just laws that deal with only the symptoms & none of the causes or preventions. Methadone programs are for control of the addicts behavior only & jail time is the other option, neither helps the situation they only hide it for the present.
There's no desire to fund for programs, education or treatment so the problem will continue to exist & the lives of all those afficted will sadley go on.
As for clebs, they should be treated just like any other poor sap that got caught walking down the same road, except that they should pay more to help fund the aid for those that can't afford help. They should also serve the same time as the poor street junkie & they more than any others should be forced to do community work with drug dependant youth. They should be made to make use of their status for the betterment of others & be forced to do it for a long time. While on the subject of time, 30 days does not qualitify as treatment. Treatment is an "in-house" program with all the trimmings & lasts for anywher from a year to a year & 1/2 before "out-house" (sorry about the pun) begins. This "I'm clean" doesn't hold water until they can say that after at least 5-10 yrs & even then they still need to walk lighty for another 5-10 yrs. It's not an easy road & most will never walk it for that long, not without a complete shift in the social. Which starts with the home, the community, the schools, the government, law enforcement, the medical community & funding.
I've only seen, & I can count them on 1 hand & have a few fingers left over, a few that made a complete recovery, without treatment (where they can say to themself I'm not an ex-addict any longer, just like everyone else). But they have a daily struggle, just like alcholics, for the rest of their lives. The amount of recovered addicts from treatment programs that I've seen probably/might (on a very good day) triple this which when one knows or has known in my case a good 1000 or so junkies & they IMHO fair far better because they don't have to fight daily for the rest of there lives, they cn because of treatment get past that. The odds would be far greater if we had a true war on drugs but we don't & that's the heartbreak for every affected family, that it doesn't have to be this way. To me it's a waste of so many good lives that the cost is nothing compared to the benifits that proper funding would bring.

Barry