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Drug use is often just a symptom of self medication for mental health disorders (obviously not always). Punishing people and then pushing them back out to the community clearly doesn’t work.
So perhaps look at addressing the cause rather than the symptoms.

My suggestion is there needs to be some serious cultural and political change before America shits the bed and becomes a fucking hot mess. Now whether that is realistic is something completely different.
The fact were in 2024 and half of your country is effectively promoting rape and refusing care for 50% of your population (females) is absolutely wild to me. So I don’t know your culture enough to provide a realistic alternative. But coming from a country that sees America as an Ally, I hope the country gets its shit together sooner rather than later.

I don’t have an answer for you on that (non-US), but if the plan is to pretend the current leader makes no mistakes because the opposition is worse… that’s not going to be pretty 10 years down the track. Granted, I appreciate that alternative now is also not pretty.

Surely just because someone else would be worse, doesn’t mean you can’t criticize the current leader. That’s a very slippery slope if you go down that path.

In my opinion, some of your comparisons are a bit off. For example, I’d say there’s a significant difference between D&D, arcades yada yada as these were generally social activities, where as you stated phone access can be completed from the comfort of their couch.
I anticipate there will inevitably be a large increase in vision impairments, neck/ upper back pain, likely social isolation and obviously reduced attention spans.