Question: Click on the implied main idea of the selection. Question4. (1) Some just shake their heads and say that if we can't stop the drugs

Click on the implied main idea of the selection. Question4. (1) Some just shake their heads and say that if we can't stop the drugs from coming in, we at least can lock up the dealers and users. (2) But there are so many dealers and users that we don't have enough jails and prisons to lock them up. (3) Consider these statistics: Several million Americans use cocaine each year, while other millions use heroin, hallucinogens, barbiturates, and inhalants. (4) During just the past month, about 13 million Americans smoked marijuana. (5) How could we possibly lock all of these people up? (6) How many dealers does it take to supply just the marijuana smokers? (7) If each dealer has 25 customers, there are a half million dealers. (8) And consider this: To build one prison cell costs about $100,000. (9) To keep one inmate locked up for one year costs a minimum of $25,000. (10) If we were going to lock up just the drug dealers, where would we get the money? (11) If we put two drug dealers in a cell, a half million new cells would run $50 billion. (12) It would then cost another $25 billion

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