[aquila48]

“If, as a society, the U.S. decided to enforce the law like Singapore, that would make the U.S. a very different country.”

Well, yes. Pick your poison:

1. sacrifice some of your freedoms in exchange for a “cleaner” and healthier society, or

2. Keep your permissive “freedoms” to do drugs and end up like Portland or San Francisco.

[RoosterRedux]

There is a difference between sacrificing "some" of our freedoms and living in a police state like Singapore...but I hear what you are saying.

The question about the legalization of weed has more to do with finding out the best way to deal with this "poison."

I am not saying that legalization is a surefire solution. But prohibition and the War on Drugs haven't worked very well either.

I know a lot of former drug users and former drinkers. All agree that drug and alcohol use/abuse is a serious problem. Most, including myself, had a serious problem at one point. None--no, not one--believe(s) the government is the solution to that problem. None decided to kick drugs/alcohol because of the law or the government.

[jmacusa]

“I prefer dangerous liberty to peaceful servitude’’.- Thomas Jefferson.