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I applaud your efforts to debate this topic. For me, this is more of a visceral thing than reasoned one in my opposition. I vehemently despise doper freaks of any kind. I have absolutley no respect for them as humans as I consider them very utterly weak and corrupt souls. I don't care what other beliefs they have in line with mine. If they all dropped dead tomorrow all the better. Thins out the herd of useless trash as far as I'm concerned.

Well thank you. For me this topic mostly holds little interest. It just so happens there is a guy I have been arguing with about it for the last six years that has turned me against it. At first it was just a lark when I challenged his position, but after awhile I got so sick of hearing about it that it got me to thinking perhaps I need to understand this subject better.

I knew drugs were bad because I had seen so many examples of them bringing death and misery to people I have known, but I had to come up with reasoned arguments as to why we should oppose them.

Over time, I realized that what these people wanted to do has already been tried, and it turned out to be a horrible disaster.

At the bottom line, I have become convinced that most people who advocate in favor of Drug legalization are motivated by the exact same thinking as the Draft Dodgers during the Vietnam War. If you know anything of the era, they created this big "Peace" movement which was against war. (As if any sane person was for it.)

In reality, underlying it all was the fact that they really weren't against war, they were just against *THEM* having to fight in a war. Their "Noble Cause" was just a vehicle used to disguise their cowardice.

Now I'm not suggesting that Drug Legalization advocates are Cowards, what I mean is that their reasons are entirely personal, though their rhetoric is lofty and noble. (i.e "Rights!" "Freedom!" "Opposition to Tyranny!" etc.)

The bottom line is they want to get high legally, but they don't want to present their arguments from so base a platform because all that noble sh*t sounds so much better.

I doubt many of them ever consider what would be the long term ramifications to the overall society if they get what they think they want.

This current generation fancies itself smarter than all the other ones which have came before. It never stops to consider that old lessons were learned the hard way, and there are very good reasons for heading those long ago learned lessons.