As in many other areas, the government needs to look at these designer drugs as a problem that cannot be solved by threat of jail time. For one thing, the current generation has a different perception of jail. It has become an accepted and even expected part of growing up. For another, in this time of unemployment, we have to expect that people will continue to use ingenuity to solve their fiscal crisis. Government will never keep up with the manufacturers, no more than our "war on drugs" has cured the past situation.

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