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So from what i understand of your post, would you be in favor of separating the drug market, for "soft" mind altering drugs such as pot, mushrooms, and plants that can be grown naturally?

"the illegality of these drugs puts addicts in legal trouble, which is the best way I know to engineer a psychological bottom from which they can begin recovery."

i understood from your experience, it helped...but from my experience a lot of people do not understand and just goes deeper in their "trouble"...feeling not understood, and feeling that all we want is to lock em up...which is not the right way to think obviously, but the majority of hard drug user actually does think this, feeling only excluded...sad but true... i would prefer a softer approach to trigger the recovery procedures, like a real education, not in the way of a brainwash though...

a lot of drug user are seeking freedom but don't know what to do...drug is a gateway to "freedom"...therefor letting the user the freedom of taking their stuff they "need", but educating them at the same time, them having a better confidence in the new institution that permits them to consume, they would maybe take the tips a lil easier..don't you think? (obviously not for all user, but a satisfying majority...)

You wrote, "So from what i understand of your post, would you be in favor of separating the drug market, for "soft" mind altering drugs such as pot, mushrooms, and plants that can be grown naturally?"

No, I am not in favor of making those kinds of fine distinctions. Without a doubt, skillful attorneys representing cocaine cartels, for example, would use 'soft' legalization as a wedge to force the door on their particular product. Besides, there is very little 'natural' growth to pot plants, for example. Even domestically grown marijuana is several times stronger now, containing THC levels unheard of in the Sixties. Mushrooms are powerful hallucinogens; I see nothing 'soft' about them.

In any event, pro-legalization arguments are moot unless and until its proponents elect legislators sympathetic to such measures. It's possible dope smokers, crackheads, heroin users, et al might achieve their hearts' desire, but I guarantee it won't be the result of any organized effort on their part. It will be because otherwise well-meaning people forget that individual rights are enjoyed only if a given society is strong enough to protect and perpetuate those rights. Legalizing mind-altering drugs weakens a society, for a number of reasons, in a number of ways. The war on drugs is, in a very real sense, a war on the notion that reality is a subjective construct, that seeking chemically induced self-delusion is as valid a pursuit as striving for character and seeking objective truth. No society can take that stance and exist for long.