"If someone broke the law trying to get their next meal they would be prosecuted."

Yet, you can't arrest an obese person for possession of Big Macs. You can't bust them eating a rasher of bacon mid-bite and throw them in a cage.

So, addiction to drugs _is_ a criminal issue. They are not treated in the same way. That needs to change.

Food is not illegal, drugs are, even if you have a legal supply of money to trade for them. That does punish the addicts by arbitrarily making their behaviors illegal.

If we outlawed you we could turn around and declare you an illegal and use it to justify the law against you. Why won't you just turn yourself in and end the manhunt? With that sort of circular logic in play it becomes obvious that our court system is actually just welfare for people in blue shirts.