The "solution" is to end the War on Drugs. Asking our police to stop people from using "illegal substances" is like asking them to piss up a rope. It can't be done.
Sure, the police can bust down doors at three in the morning, bust up everything in sight, and arrest some low-level drug user or dealer. But so what? Some people want to get high. And as long as that is true, other people will satisfy that demand, and will risk prison and even death for the profits.
Politicians are asking the police to do the impossible, and the police are doing the best they can. The police certainly bear some of the blame when things inevitably go wrong, but the fact is that we keep electing politicians who keep this insane drug war going.
