[ConservingFreedom]

And, no amount of state control will keep people from doing so. Even in the former Soviet states. Or even in a prison.

Or in Iran: "Drug abuse in Iran rising despite executions, police raids" - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3256793/posts

[GBA]

No surprise. What is surprising is that some people continue attempting to violate innate human nature in spite of all the prior failures around the world and throughout history.

Whether it's the war on drugs or prohibition of alcohol or socialism/marixism/communism, the arguments why all have failed will usually be things like: the wrong people were in charge, they weren't smart enough or wise enough or that they didn't spend enough, etc.

NO! All fail because they attempt to control human nature and make human nature illegal.

The attempts, no matter how wise, well intended or how much money is spent, all run counter to natural law and what the Master Programmer wrote into our most basic source code and BIOS.

What all attempts create instead is a black market, an underground sub-culture and a police state that attempts to control them.

Our own experience with prohibition should have taught us that much, but it didn't. And now our war on drugs has created all of the predictable problems, decade after decade. Deja vu all over again.

Ben Franklin was right about freedom, liberty and safety, and I bet he knew we'd ignore him, too.