Well...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxoqVvBWJLk

And it would increase the frequency of illegal drug trafficking, which has been shown to cause violence in and out of gangs, and feed off of young people's "I must press the button that I'm not allowed to press" mentality.

bonus clip!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQg8JKo_3ZQ

So people will resort to crime to pay for private treatment?

That's what the police are there for, and that would be another priority on my list: deduct funds from the world army budget and invest it all into new technologies and general funding for the police, and put lots of money into making drugs seem a lot worse than they are for kids. Also go on a worldwide campaign to burn all tobacco and other drug crops.

.........I'm going to compile a list now.

1) No police force on the planet can or ever will be able to seize control over drug trafficking
2) Stifling the army's budget in such hostile and tense times would be disastrous
3) Lying to the public about the effects of drugs is already being done and is horribly failing
4) Burning all of it would just make everyone in the world high as [censored] for a few days

That last one may or may not have been a joke.

Pokoyo for president!

So you'd lie to the public (which they would find out the moment someone says "Heeey, I just ate this shroom...AND MY BRAIN DIDN'T EXPLODE!" making them loose all trust in you.) Then you'd weaken your army, and put that money into funding doughnut-munchers, even though the army can do anything coppers can, but better, furthermore police wouldn't be able to quell serious armed revolts rising up all over the world in protest of your insane regime.

Still a better ending than Mass Effect 3.

Hey, I have the moon lazorrr that I used to take over the world to back me up here! I don't need an army!

We may not be able to control it, but we can certainly do more to reduce it. For example, drug checker police at schools, checking everyone every day for drugs, more drug sniffing dogs patrolling the streets, constant searches for drug producing facilities (i.e thermal camera equipped police helicopters are good at finding weed farms), prosecution for usage of drugs etc etc. I'm not saying drug problems can be completely eradicated, but a lot more can be done to reduce the amount of drug problems.

And I don't think the public are being lied to, the effects aren't really exaggerated as much as they should be, and it needs to be embedded into people from the earliest possible ages.

Well no offense but some of these ideas are unconstitutional.

1) Build a time machine, discover the secret of immortality, travel back to the middle ages with advanced tech
2) Declare myself god-emperor of man kind.

I don't mean like stripping people down, maybe just having them sniffed by dogs or using some special drug detecting device invented with the increased funds.

Brilliant idea!

I meant things like thermal helicopters. They could vilolate people's privacy...

This sentence contradicts itself. First you say people aren't being lied to, then you say the effects are exaggerated and should be exaggerated even further. You do see the problem with your logic?
There's no point saying something is more harmful than it is. If the actual effects of heroin are not enough to scare someone away from using it, then they deserve to get [censored] up by it (of course the public should be fully educated about ACTUAL effects). You can't babysit the world.



I read a book like this by Mark Twain, it was called A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Darn good comedy.

1. No idea. I guess I could become an omnipotent deity that was strangely obsessed with doing everything via legal systems instead of god-powers.

2. I'd focus government resources on colonizing the moon and other planets, theraqeutic cloning technologies, and technologies that would allow the growth of human embryos and fetuses outside of the environment of the female body.

I'd strictly regulate industrial emissions and mandate new MPG standards in the Americas.

I'd incentivize the development, acquisition and use of non-gasoline based motor vehicles.

I'd institute policies to encourage veterinarians to work in rural areas with farm animals.

I would ban homeowner associations.

I would overhaul the education system, with policies changes aimed at improving graduation rates, increasing student involvement in extra-curricular activities, and increasing student involvement in class room activities. Less "sitting still and quiet while teacher lectures" and more discussions, active class participation in learning the material, and performance competitions between students in order to incentivize studying.

I would overhaul domestic and sixual abuse laws to ensure that the legal system is properly equipped to arrest and prosecute both female and male abusers. I would also ensure that DV shelters housed both male victims of domestic abuse and the teenage male children of domestic abuse victims.

I would see if I could get people with the means to reproduce via cloning, and have their clones reproduce by cloning, so that you would have snobbish "clone lineages" that prided themselves on being however many generations long while being nearly genetically identical to one guy or gal. I would also see if I could get these types to act even more snobbish if they weren't just cloning in order to reproduce, but also getting the genetic material for future clones from the corpse of either the original person or of a clone that was very early in the lineage. There's not really any point in this one, I just want to know if I can turn cloning into a source of elitism.

1) Use armies of lolis to take over the world
2) Kill everyone that isn't a loli and live life peacefully with my harem.

Things like that are already used, basically because of all the heat that weed farms need, those houses give off the most heat in an area and thus makes it detectable by the cameras and the police.


Yeah I suppose it is contradictory, I mean that basically people are just told the actual affects, and not exaggerated really. I suppose the best way to tackle it is to tackle production of drugs and not the use of it, or something like that. And nobody deserves to be [censored] up by heroin.

1. Love and Peace
2. Total Annihilation

"Location: Liverpool, UK"

Set Research to 66%

They just measure the electricity bill. If it's insanely high, they will check out the location. For example, a group of warehouses in the B.C. Rockies had a huge electricity bill, turns out they were growing weed. But heat lamps aren't needed in warmer climates. And no nobody DESERVES to get [censored] up by heroin, but they will and you can't stop that. It's ultimately their decision, not yours.

Yeah, but this would actually minimise that. It would be as commonplace as having a beer, which is certainly not impressive.

1. Delete all money
2. Resource Based Economy
3. Problem solved