http://www.smh.com.au/national/health/let-state-supply-drugs-cowdery-20120601-1zn5e.html
While I will remain a refugee from this thread,I am pleased the much needed debate continues in public.
And that views not unlike my own are getting air.
Such a change will repel great numbers.
As the legal Heroin rooms do/did.
No change is easy, I feel such a change worth the pain.
effects include less crime less deaths ability to monitor and try to get users off drugs.
A open in full sight problem, may see even greater changes.

On the alcohol/ drugs question, we know alcohol causes massive problems, but criminalizing in America made it worse because it fed crime that has continued to grow. So we don't ban alcohol. Why drugs? Would we not be better taking the profit out of it by allowing those who suffer harm from either to claim substantial damages via a government drug harm recovery body which takes a % of the damages. Might this cut consumption of alcohol and drugs and relieve taxpayers of picking up the costs (but depriving them of the taxes)?