[dinok]

"If someone is dumb enough to use enough drugs to kill themselves, that's their business"

Tell that to the family of my brother in law...his kids who have no father but a grave stone...his wife who has to raise them alone...his mother and father whom he robbed and terrorized...oh yes...drugs are harmless. My family is real enthused by them.

Look...you will not ever convince me legalizing them is right.

[gcruse]

If drugs were legal, he wouldn't have needed to rob and terrorize. Of course, if the drugs weren't the cause of the robbing and terrorizing, then the legalization whacking is misplaced.

[Awestruck]

I never said drugs are harmless.. I said adults make their own decisions, and if their decisions affect others adversely, they are idiots...but obviously your brother in law and mr pastorelli, along with millions of others are not stopped by the illegality..so what's the point? People who use have big problems..jail doesn't make good citizens of people with drug problems.

[flashbunny]

The only things benefitting from keeping drugs illegal are drug dealer's bank accounts
and police department budgets. Everyone else just pays for it. Otherwise the war on drugs has been a colossal failure. The store of your brother in law proves the futility of a fight we have paid hundreds of billions of dollars for yet doesn't work and doesn't have any chance of working.

The answer to the problem isn't to marginally constrict supply and make other people wealthy in the process while frittering away our rights.

If you want to do something about the problems with drug abuse, make everyone responsible for their own actions. From choosing to do the drugs, paying for any medical treatment they need (no government handouts), harsh jail sentences if they harm anyone while under the influence of drugs (or to support their habbit), and finally, allowing every law abiding citizen to exercise their right to keep and bear arms, so that if somebody under the influence of drugs or booze threatens them, they can take care of themselves.