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Ok, you right there, I was being sarcastic with a completely drug free society.

But the problem with alcohol is adults and the entertainment industry make alcohol very appealing. Thank you Hollywood. What do you think the reaction would be to something like the Budweiser frogs saying "mari" "wan" "na". You would hear from a few angry people. But I'm not sure if we could ever rely on popular culture to regard as drug use as wrong and immoral. But with enough advertising I'm sure would could have a positive impact. But just remember, there won't be any change to what is happening now, there wont be anymore regular users if we legalized.

My contention to that statment is if you legalize the current illegal drugs, we can start off on the right foot. Hopefully the government wouldn't allow their to be any brands... no reason for advertising. Which would prevent the pot frogs from ever happening.

I'm hoping most children will just stick with alcohol or even marijuana and not get into the hard stuff. That's what most studies have shown in countries that have legalized all drugs. How many people have used marijuana in the past month in the US? Currently it’s 10% of the population, how about the Netherlands? Less than half that, only 4.5%. Cocaine? Americans use it 3 times more readily than their Netherlander counterparts. Heroin? America has it too, .3% of the population compared to their .1%. Are you beginning to question are drug laws? Now I don't support the way that they did legalize their drugs, it has caused one problem. But that's becuase their liberal idiots and don't do what needs to be done. Get the drug abusers off the streets and throw them in prison for a while.

What about this? In 1992 when Bill Clinton became president, one of his first moves to gain support was to broadly expand the war on drugs. During Clinton’s first 4 years in office, he spent more on battling drugs than Ronald Reagan and George H. Bush did in 12 years. And the results after tripling funding, what happened to drug use? From 1992 to 1999, marijuana use doubled among adults, and more than doubled among teenagers. Where else in government policy has tripling funding caused a negative impact.

So if it really is that simple, what would you rather have. The same number of drug users while spending tens of billions of dollars trying to force them to stop. Or pass laws were we can focus on keeping the innocent people safe, and let the idiots that want to poison themselves with brain killing chemicals have at it.

I would rather see 100 drug users overdose and kill themselves than see one innocent person die. I hope that's not too heartless. Maybe not.