So then you are okay with putting otherwise law abiding citizens in a cage and ruining their chances of getting a decent job? Maybe even exposing them to a group of people who do harder drugs? How would you propose we handle the massive new influx of prisoners?
Your solution is to further overload the police and prison systems?
If we as humans went bankrupt, it was when we decided to start having the government police what substances people can and cannot use.
Sustainable business model, extremely profitable and extremely anti-competitive, .... but rules are for fools. As time permits doctors and psychologists will have their share of the spoils like tobacco.
Personally I would turn the tide and put cigarettes on par with heroin legally. 1 packet of cigarettes, six months to jail. Their profits were made by devastating our healthcare system and made people ill.
Why not try this again? This time they will sell drugs legally.
The crisis was never financial, we as humans went bancrupt.