[Gay State Conservative]

I worked for 20 years in the ER of a major hospital located in a large city.In that time I saw,day in and day out,the breathtaking damage that drugs have caused to individuals...and to society.Any calls to “liberalize” drug laws (funny how it’s mainly “progressives” who support that effort) fall on deaf ears with me.And *always* will.

[Brad from Tennessee]

When Nixon waged his “War on Drugs” about 75 percent of funding went to education and treatment with 25 percent going to interdiction. It's no surprise that today that ratio is reversed. Law enforcement has greater lobbying power than the drug/alcohol treatment industry. The “drug war” is a great funding boom for police at all levels of government. Why would they ever want it to end?

[PieterCasparzen]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv4x2pRMamE

[E. Pluribus Unum]

They'd have to get real jobs!

That's racist!

[Resolute Conservative]

Any thread about legalizing drugs should immediately draw the head slap guy.

[blueunicorn6]

Using recreational drugs to escape reality is cowardice. No culture values cowardice.

[tacticalogic]

Federal law requires the office of the Drug Czar to oppose any attempt to change current drug laws.

IMHO, there's something very wrong with the idea of the government of a supposedly self-governing nation using the tax money of it's citizens to pay bureaucrats who's job is to try to prevent them from changing the law.