Quote Originally Posted by MrShrike View Post
Well frankly, it's a legitimate concern, if often overblown and an overused.

As I implied before, if you want a fairly effective and cheap way of handling it, don't pay welfare recipients cash, or at least, don't pay them in a way that enables them to transform it into hard currency which can be used to buy drugs.

Pay them in some other form of credits, which can only be used to make purchases in stores and which stores can redeem for currency, Or, more simply, just pay their welfare payments into an account that doesn't allow cash withdrawals, only store purchases - some kind of debit card would be perfect.

I'm never heard of a drug dealer who accepted VISA or anything else but cold hard cash.
What dealer wants (and, realistically, can have) the use of a card when such things can bounce/etc and leave an easy paper-trail for authorities. The only places I can see as taking cards/credit are the Weed Stores (or whatever they call 'em) in Cali. Though they're legit.