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Hopefully, no one ever intended for so called Drug Free Zones to be ironic. Certainly, drugs exist within these zones even if such existence is illegal. Furthermore, the drugs that are illegal in Drug Free Zones, but still present, are illegal and ubiquitous everywhere else as well. Let's make these Drug Free Zones make more sense and help them achieve their eponymous goals by establishing Free Drug Zones. In these Free Drug Zones, the city, or an organization operating on its behalf, would provide a clean, safe environment to dispense otherwise illegal drugs freely or, at least, below market rates. The creation of such Free Drug Zones would alleviate some of the problems associated with the War on Drugs by obviating the violent enforcement of anti-drug laws and by putting local dealers out of business, thereby precluding them from having to resort to violence for their own protection. The loss of these businesses might harm the local economy in the short term, but I think it will help in the long run by keeping more community members out of prison.