The harm in drugs, is you are no longer yourself. Drugs take the person and scramble them. It's not so unlike being placed in a box, and having someone shake the box violently. Sometimes you come out jittery, and sometimes you come out limp.
Drugs are like bad weather. Sometimes they freeze you, sometimes they fry you.
I would leave them outlawed. I wouldn't send to lock-down, though, those who have no violence associated with them. If they have displayed no signs of harming society, why lock them away from society? Yes, do put them in confinement -- soft confinement. Put them in a halfway-type house, where there are counselors living with them, helping them deal with their addictions. Continue to encourage them to work, and allow families to visit as often as can. Test them often, and make judgments based on that as to who might be bringing them drugs, and shield them from those who are.
The drug addicts are an at-risk part of our society, obviously, and they should receive our highest attention, our highest care. If they are to change, they need love. If they can't change, they need love.
It is said America is the most incarcerated nation in the world. Inasmuch as they would no longer be in lock-down, but could potentially just walk out the door, this would hopefully bring end to that embarrassing statistic.
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