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I think you need to drive by a crack house and think again. Drugs make you stupid and eventually they catch up to a person, I don't care who you are. I've seen it with my own eyes, people who handled drugs really well for a while that turned into psychos when they get high.

I have friends and family who have both died and ruined their lives from drug abuse. And, I have lived in the ghetto. So your comments are pure BS.

Sorry, but the crack houses are a product of the WOD. The death and destruction is too bad, but it goes on with the WOD as it's currently fought. I've lived through it.

Think about it...

I think you need to drive by a crack house and think again. Drugs make you stupid and eventually they catch up to a person, I don't care who you are. I've seen it with my own eyes, people who handled drugs really well for a while that turned into psychos when they get high.

Indeed. And all these harms occur with drugs being illegal (along with the other societal costs and harms of the WOD). Do you know anyone who would become a crack head if crack were made legal?

I remember the conversation like it was yesterday. I was in my teens when the first seat belt laws hit the books. My mother was up-in-arms and I didn't understand why. She explained it to me.

"The government is passing laws giving themselves the power to protect us from ourselves; not from each other; not from outside threats but from ourselves". Its been all down hill ever since. The issue with drugs is not the harm they due. The issue is our individual freedom to choose our own risks. The government has decided we're not allowed to do that.

People slowly kill themselves with Big Macs. People kill themselves with cigarettes. People climb vertical rock walls on mountains. People race cars. People fail to get enough exercise. People do countless things that are dangerous or detrimental to their own well being because they are free to do so - but in the case of drugs there is no civil liberty too minor to squash, no right too inalienable to ignore in the public interest of protecting you from yourself. These are all pretexts used to expand the power of the government against the citizens. Many drugs laws are TOTALLY politically motivated.