[B.O. Plenty]

It's hard to tell how popular it is on FR. There are a few hard core drug warriors here that really get in people's faces when some sanity is proposed to relieve the failing WOD. My position is that all drugs should be "legalized" and regulated and that we treat drug addicts like drunks. We have been dealing with alcoholics since the beginning of time, and we can do the same with druggies. Most "alcoholics" function in society well.....it is not unreasonable IMHO to think that a pot-head would not do the same. As I see it, there are two solutions to the WOD....either we get REALY tough...like summary execution for dealers AND users....or legalization.

I am reasonably sure that somebody will give me advice as to where I can put my opinion...but nobody so far has suggested anything that will work better. The status quo...business as usual...is clearly not working....

[Brilliant]

Read my suggestion at #48 re something better. Regulate it to death. Squeeze the profit margins for private suppliers by continuing to seize their supplies, and then stealing their market by making small amounts of what you seize available to people who can prove they are addicted anyway, but only on condition that they submit to treatment.

[battlegearboat]

I've read about 80 posts before coming back to you and replying:

It's been a remarkably mild arguement so far...must mean everyone's read thier latest National Review.

[Ken H]

As I see it, there are two solutions to the WOD....either we get REALY tough...like summary execution for dealers AND users....or legalization.

Even the hardest of the hardline approach doesn't seem very effective:

International Narcotics Control Strategy Report: Iran

"Iran has executed more than 10,000 narcotics traffickers in the last decade"

-- International Narcotics Control Strategy Report: Iran

Tackling Iran's heroin habit

Iran has the world's highest proportion of heroin addicts and a growing Aids problem

-- Tackling Iran's heroin habit