Marijuana Policy Project

 Society is still crumbling. The money spent on drug and substance-abuse problems in this country has not been effective. After many years of spending money for law enforcement to get dealers off the streets, the problem still exists. Drug abuse is still rampant in this city and still destroying the lives of many families and children.

We need to attack this problem from a different angle. Perhaps it is time to take some of that enforcement money and provide more substance-abuse treatment centers. As it stands, most people cannot afford to go into drug rehab because of the cost.

We need to make these treatment centers available to everyone who needs help. The few treatment centers that will take the homeless or low-income people are full and have waiting lists.

Most treatment centers do not include employment programs to help people get back into the work force after being treated. These people become discouraged and sometimes fall back into the patterns of abuse.  We have to try new ways of dissolving this generational cycle of substance abuse in our cities. The current ways are not working.