[MizSterious]

One small nit to pick with your position on drugs--I don't know about marijuana, but meth is very dangerous. The users become entirely irrational, often violent, and are a menace to society. Other drugs might be the same--I hear most about meth. It seems to act a lot like the old "angel dust" in that it makes people dangerously insane while using it.

[small_l_libertarian]

I totally agree, but there was no evidence that either of these guys did anything to hurt anybody. Also no evidence that they were acting irrational (if you can call the Dumbass Brothers rational.) If they do, then lock their stupid butts up, pronto!

But think of it this way - you could be sitting in your own house and do a pound of meth. Be completely whacked out of your gourd so you don't know up from down. But if you don't hurt anyone else, should the cops be able to lock you up just for being an idiot?

And to be really nitpicky - there was also no evidence that either of the brothers used the meth. (Yes, that they used meth in general, but not the meth that they both ended up being charged with possessing.) So who did they harm? Who did they have the potential to harm?

I AM NOT ADVOCATING THE USE OR POSSESSION OF DRUGS. (Not meant for you, Miz. Just a standard disclaimer.)

[Yeti]

One small nit to pick with your position on drugs--I don't know about marijuana, but meth is very dangerous.

I agree, meth and cocaine both lead to psychosis with prolonged use.

This isn't the thread for it, and I know I am lagging, but to expand on my previous post....

Cocaine is so addictive, like heroin and many prescription drugs, that I think it should be severely limited, if not banned. Doctor only. LSD, I have no problem with, but any substance that allows a person to incapacitate a whole city with less than a gallon needs to be controlled, although the current penalties for possession are insane.

'Nuff said. Small-l probably doesn't like where I go with this, so don't tell her ;)

I just don't think marijuana is sufficiently dangerous to be regulated more severely than alcohol.