[nathanbedford]

I quite agree with you and I will make my anti-drug war position even more tenuous when I say that it does no good to nibble at the edges, all drugs must be legalized and not taxed to the point where a black market is created. That means of the most lethal addictive drugs must become readily available, at least to adults, at very cheap prices in order to eliminate the profit motive.

That is the core logic of a libertarian position. Anything short of total legalization leaves the profit motive intact and only keeps alive the need to push, and with it the profit and the corruption.

I understand there is no realistic political chance of doing what is necessary.

[HiTech RedNeck]

If you aren’t careful about just what you propose and how, you will just get bounced back.

Be careful about fighting the bible too much even if you are an unbeliever (and I would challenge you to look again at reasons to believe). This is, at least, the book that built the West. The Bhagavad Gita did not do that. The Koran did not do that. Results are not to be sneezed at, and we are silly to cut off our noses because we do not like our faces.