A safe, effective way to police drug use

Contemplating the long nightmare the drug problem has been (destroyed lives, families and neighborhoods; strain on the police, the legal justice system and the taxpayer), I'm wondering if this would work:

Pick out an abandoned warehouse or schoolhouse. Secure it so there's only one entrance and only those over the age of 18 would be admitted. The only exit would require a simple sobriety test. Walking a 12-foot-long plank laid on edge should do the trick.

Then fill the building (our new drug center) with all the cocaine, crack, heroine, meth, etc., the government could buy. Give it away free as long as it's consumed within the confines of this drug center and you are sober before leaving.

We might need to have a crematorium nearby for all the overdoses that would happen in the first few months. But just imagine how the street trade and drug-related crime would dry up.

I'm not joking. Too bad none of the politicians we elect has the guts to try something like this.

Daniel Hahn

Blairstown