Alabama says it’s tough on drug crime. It just perpetuates it.

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.

It's really out of control. Just last week I was in my Uber to work and had to see an encampment of the most destitute people in the city forced to live on the street because a bunch of NIMBYs don't want shelters near them (they wanted to build one near my condo building and you'd better believe I gave them a piece of my mind about letting a bunch of drug addicts moving into real buildings in my neighborhood). It's horrible the way they turn to drugs because if they're going to die on the streets anyway they might add well die high. If we just arrest them all then at least they can contribute to the economy by providing free labor for a private prison! Anyway, the sight of those people made me vomit right there in the Uber. I'd rather have to pay the cleaning fee than walk the three blocks to work and actually have to SMELL those people!