No, no, no, no, a thousand times no.

1) I have a friend with a DUI. From Michigan. First and only offense. And because she has to comply with Michigan's DUI laws (more specifically, one terrible county) while living in LA, she gets to put up with Michigan's punishments while living in LA. Which means she has to ride a bus twice a day to go blow in a tube. Which she has to pay $40 for. Which she's had to do for 9 months. Which has made her completely incapable of working because she has to burn 4 hours a day riding buses to go blow at the courthouse. Meanwhile, some fly-by-night operation is making $2800 a month off her and she can't work. 24-7 programs are bullshit.

2) My dad's girlfriend has a son. He has to blow once a day. The only place he can blow is a 40-mile drive and he can't drive because he's got a DUI (never mind the fact that he has a seizure disorder and was never actually tested). So not only does he skunk two hours of his day, he skunks two hours of his wife's day so NEITHER of them can work. 24-7 programs are bullshit.

3) There is no such thing as casual heroin use and casual marijuana use is a lot less common than casual alcohol use. Drawing parallels between "beer" and "heroin" illustrates that you have no fucking business working with public policy.

4) Powdered cocaine costs more than crack cocaine and people still snort powder. Price increases mean fuckall - some people will pay more for shit just because the price increase implies quality increase. Fuck - if it costs me $4 a quarter to grow weed but you're leveeing $40 a quarter in taxes, I'm going to price that shit at $80 a quarter and spend $10 a quarter making it more potent. The economics work out better for me to make my shit harder and more pure than the guy charging $44 a quarter because once the barrier to entry has been raised that much you might as well start dealing with real economics.

Fuck this guy.