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12. No advertisements to aggrandize or romanticize drug use (The local drug dealer will no longer be a role model for young people trying to extricate themselves from the poverty of the slums of our cities.) 13. Nobody will solicit one more drug user for any reason! (Why should they. There is no money to be made by doing so. In fact with this model the only way to profit from the drug culture would be as a social worker trying to help drug users stop their addictions.) 14. And no terrorists will make any money from illicit drug sales. In the 1997 ten kilograms of Reactor -grade plutonium (enough to make an atomic bomb) was valued at $56,000. If plutonium sells on the underground market with a thousand percent mark up, ten kilograms would cost $560,000. In case you are thinking, "At this point, it's starting to be priced out of the range of your average terrorist," think again. The "average terrorist" makes his living selling illegal drugs. Heroin, which at the beginning of the war on drugs in 1970 was valued at $400,000 per kilogram, is still worth $70,000 per kilogram today, despite the immense drop in price caused by the glut of supply created by 37 years of a failed war on drugs. That means the "average terrorist" would have to sell about eight kilograms of pure heroin for every ten kilograms of pure weapons -grade Plutonium he wishes to buy. That is not a major problem for the terrorist, as long as we continue the policy of drug prohibition. But if we ended that terrible law tomorrow and created a system of legalized regulation of all drugs, the next day no terrorist in the world would make a penny selling drugs. Step 4: Take a portion of the billions of dollars we save each year thanks to ending drug prohibition and redirect it. According to a Harvard University study by Economist Jeffrey Miron, which was released in December 2008 the United States Treasury would realize an additional 76.8 billon dollars every year if we legalize, regulate and tax today's illicit drugs. We should use that money to first create programs that offer hope for the future. In the more than 35 years I have worked in this field I have found that addicted people tend to have one thing in common they have very little or absolutely no hope for the future. Give them hope and the vast majority will leave their addictions behind them. The drug use of U.S. soldiers during and after the Vietnam War reinforces this theory. Many (perhaps the majority) of U.S. soldiers used marijuana during the early part of the Vietnam War 59 because they had been placed in an untenable position one where hope for the future was close to nonexistent. When President Nixon heard about the marijuana use, he was worried about the message that would send so he started a very strong enforcement program to track down users and force them to quit. The program was quite successful because the odor of marijuana was so easy to detect but the policy had terrible unintended side effects it is estimated that half of all the U.S. troops simply switched to the lower priced and easier concealed #4 grade heroin, which was available all over the country. That heroin was so potent that they could smoke it with tobacco or dip toothpicks in a liquid solution and chew them as they went about their business. Countless soldiers were thus exposed to regular use of heroin over a long period. At the end of their tours when the soldiers expected to return to the United States, their bosses said they could not leave until they came up with clean urine. Talk about an incentive program! So they all cleaned up and returned 17