Daddy warbucks George Soros has the money, but confessed in Davos that he doesn´t have a specific solution to the drug problem. According to BBC Soros said austerity “demanded” a new approach to drugs policy, as incarceration was very expensive.

If Soros thinks incarceration is expensive he might be in for a surprise or two when he finds out what an increasing number of drug users would cost nations all over the world should they follow his advice to solve the drug problem by implementing no specific solution.

For those of you who are not familiar with the Soros stance on drugs, let me remind you of his own words, I´ll tell you what I would do if it were up to me. I would establish a strictly controlled distribution network through which I would make most drugs, excluding the most dangerous ones like crack, legally available. Initially, I would keep prices low enough to destroy the drug trade. Once that objective was attained I would keep raising the prices, very much like the excise duty on cigarettes, but I would make an exception for registered addicts in order to discourage crime. I would use a portion of the income for prevention and treatment. And I would foster social opprobrium of drug use.(from Soros on Soros, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1995, p.200).

Are these naïve ideas about drug policy what Soros means by not having a specific solution to the drug problem?

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