Nope. I was only applying it to you since you are the one who offered this statement:
I spent my youth in the heart of New York City. I guarantee that Ive seen everything you have and at least ten times more.
You portrayed yourself as somewhat of an authority on the drug culture after making this completely asinine statement:
Cocaine is about as heavy a drug as alcohol, and no more.
As someone who has experienced the front line first hand, I can say that you do not have a clue what you are talking about. Sure, at one point in your life you may have snorted some coke that had been stepped on 42 times in East Harlem. But when you find your best friend dead of a heart attack with the needle still dangling from his arm because he got the crazy idea to shoot a whole gram of Peruvian flake, then you can come and tell me how pointless drug laws are. Capisce?
I have had friends who have died of overdose, so I do know what it is like.
Their poor choices are no excuse whatsoever to put the tens of millions of fellow citizens who responsibly use these drugs - people you never see as drug users because they don’t show symptoms of addiction - in jail. Which helps no one anyway.
88000 deaths due to alcohol a year. Less than 200 due to cocaine. If these numbers mean nothing to you then you are not rationally assessing the situation.