Drug stores have a duty to prevent sales of pseudoephedrine, an essential ingredient for the poisonous meth stew. In 2010, CVS Drugs the nation's largest operator of retail pharmacies, announced it had agreed to pay $75 million in fines for allowing repeated purchases of pseudoephedrine that led to a spike in California meth drug trafficking. Pseudoephedrine is a popular over the counter drug. There have been attempts to make it a prescription only drug, but big drug manufactures and lobbyists stop laws that effect profits. Now the taxpayer has to pick up the tab for incarceration, broken families, police, mental health and meth-lab cleanup. The drug war has failed! People will do drugs. People do drugs less if they are involved, have stability, and lead a less stressful existence. Jail time results in isolation, instability and extreme stress. Why in the world is everything considered medically treatable except drug addiction? Portugal has the lead in legalization of drugs and drug use has measurably declined. Lets copy Portugal's example and take all funding used for incarceration and law enforcement of drug laws and use it all to provide comprehensive treatment. The results will save taxpayers millions, not to mention lives saved and enhanced by a new model of drug control.