So the police gets them, and gets the dealer then they either get treated or prisoned depending if its their first time or they are actually addicted.

But a lot of what you're describing is literally the Portuguese model, which you can find out if you read the article. They can require you go to rehab depending on if it's your first time or if you're addicted. It's just not a criminal matter, it's a public health matter. Which means you have less stigma, you avoid prison, a record - and you are more likely to ask for help.

We know for a fact prison is a place you can get drugs, and going there leaves you more likely to be addicted, not less, because you look to those same drugs as an escape from your prison situation.

5he police is going to be the first one to interact with addicts because they should be working on dismantling the entire drug network and working on catching dealers.

Dealers aren't users or addicts. Different people. The police would not be the first to respond to them in 99% of cases.

And you can dismantle the network by making it uncompetitive. Let the state sell drugs, who cares? Then the narcos die off and the network dismantles itself.

The thing is we've provided all sorts of ways for you to achieve your goal of not seeing zombies on the street without the cruelty. And yet you continue to try and find ways to invent problems. It seems like the cruelty of your suggestion may be the point?

Isn’t that what we’ve been doing for the last 50 years? How did that work out?

You know where else doesn't have those things? Portugal.

If so that still counts as a failure, nobody should be allowed to ever take these drugs in their lifetime.