text: Yes - I support cost-effective medical treatment of people with addiction problems, including controlled legal distribution of many currently illegal narcotics.  The current arrangement wastes too much human potential, as well as too much time and resources dealing with both law enforcement and health care.
  What I don't support is the dynamic of grandstanding politicians and their co-dependent media cohorts as they try to capitalize on tragedy without doing anything except expanding the problem and the associated expense.
  As it stands today, drug dealers must be laughing all the way to the bank as the country funds programs that sustain their customers' ability to keep buying.
  Government can be worse than useless, and this situation is Exhibit A..