Problem with drugs and drug addicts: I have a proposal but where can I send this?

Question

i have a proposal to solve the problem with drugs and drug addicts... basically, we must know eher the drugs come from and what I know it's from certain species of plants!

Solution: destroy those plants!! When the source of origin is destroyed, then we can destroy drugs!! Like marijuana and heroin.

Then replace with plants that provide benefit to mankind eg: wheat, corn, vegetables, fruits - after all, with the increasing price of food - isn't this a wonderful solution (besides curbing the climate change and global warming?)

Answer 1

Have you ever heard of "drug erradication"? You're not the first to dream this up.

Actually, a far better (and realistic) solution would be to treat the drug "problem" as a health, not a criminal, problem. Deal with what happens when people take drugs.

Marijuana should be legalized. It isn't really a drug anyway.

Answer 2

The problem is and has always been... there is money in contraband/cannibis, etc.  Where there is money...there are no surprises.  Any idea is a good idea...but always follow the money.  Money buys guns and causes bloodshed to protect the source.

Answer 3

Good luck with that, I know a few places around here where the guys in gang patches will happily invite you into their fortresses to destroy their crops.

Plus those Afghani and Colombian farmers will be super-stoked you've wiped out their livelihoods.

And the governments of the world will happily contribute the required millions of police officers and billions of dollars to the cause, I'm sure.

Answer 4

Don't bother. It's already been tried. Didn't work, too much money to be made selling drugs. Sorry to burst your bubble.

Answer 5

You are an addict yourself!

Get some treatment, you yahoo question-poster addict !

You crossposted your one question (sorry proposal to solve the drugproblem) on a zillion different (unrelated) yahoo answer boards such as "politics", "other-health", "other - diseases" and in "international organisations"...

And to answer your question: people WANT to use drugs so they WILL use drugs, as they always did as long as mankind existed. You cannot "solve" the 'drugproblem'!!

Lets solve crime, lets solve traffic accidents! lets solve bad wheater!

for your information drugs come from more than just plants. ever heard of laboraties? you can make amfetamines in your kitchen, how are you going to stop people from doing that??

And how do you define 'drugs'??? Will coffee and chocolate be named drugs or not? they do have an effect and are addictive. Where do you draw the line?

Will you include painkillers and other prescription drugs? people will take those to replace the drugs you would 'destroy' as they are looking for mind altering substances anyway...

Answer 6

It's not that eazy as most of them comes from other countrys and we can not just go in as we don't have the right too do it

Answer 7

a lot of the drugs that are abused are also used for a purpose other than abuse, such as pain medication in the terminally ill cancer patient.  It would not work.

Answer 8

Wow, why didn't anyone else think of that.

(sarcasm/off)

Answer 9

Send your proposal to the President because it is a very excellent project against drugs.